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ot that we need a study to tell us we should get OUTDOORS for our own good, but if we did, there are about a thousand of them.

One study in 2012 found that a team of backpackers were 50 percent more creative after they spent a few days on the trail. Another one from last year, led by Stanford researchers, found quantifiable evidence that walking in nature can lower the risk of depression. In our increasingly connected and urban world, being outside may indeed help us stay sane. These aren’t hippies talking — it’s science!

Read up (beginning on page 22) and then go outside, take a walk, climb a rock, roast marshmallows, anything.

Also this week: music editor Laura Johnson has a story on a local man now writing songs for the Goo Goo Dolls (page 51) and in News, staff writer Wilson Criscione reports on a 12-year-old prodigy who’s being kept out of community college (page 20).

— JACOB H. FRIES, editor

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Moving right along: Before leaving for Scotland, Trump laid out another of his brilliant ideas — a plan to reduce mass shootings. He recommends that we seriously consider profiling every Muslim “living in America.” This came as a footnote to his earlier brilliant idea to not let another Muslim enter the country — or, in his words, “When I’m elected, I will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies until we fully understand how to end these threats.”

Following this line of Trump non-reasoning, we should profile all white males between the ages of 17 and 24 living in Colorado. Makes as much sense. Consider: Columbine; 37 casualties (13 dead, 24 wounded) and the killers were two white males ages 17 and 18. Aurora; 82 casualties (12 killed, 70 wounded) and the killer was a 24-year-old white male.

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ur attention is next directed to a related Trumpist view of reality, this regarding gun control. Now, one might think that anyone interested in reducing the likelihood of more Orlando massacres would entertain regulating the type of weapons sold and the people buying those weapons, and consider seriously the experience that other countries and cities have had with both. But no, Donald doubles down on his own campaign website: “Gun and magazine bans are a total failure. That’s been proven every time it’s been tried. Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like ‘assault weapons,’ ‘military-style weapons’ and ‘high capacity magazines’ to confuse people.

What they’re really talking about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are owned by tens of millions of Americans.

Law-abiding people should be allowed to own the firearm of their choice. The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own.”

Where to begin? Trump’s assertions would surely come as a surprise to those countries and American states that have serious and effective gun regulations. U.S. homicide-by-gun numbers run upward of 10,000 yearly. Let’s compare our gun death numbers with those of a few nations where, according to Trump, gun regulation “has been a total failure.” Canada: less than 200 gun homicides per year. Germany: “In Germany,” wrote the New York Times, “being murdered with

a gun is as uncommon as being killed by a falling object in the United States.” England and Wales? Only about 50 gun homicides per year. Down under in Australia, which passed a buy-back plan after a mass shooting in 1996?

Since then, gun-related homicides have dropped to about 30 per year.

As for American states, the Violence Policy Center reports that states with “weak gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the highest death rates in America. States with the strong gun regulation have fewer guns owned and fewer gun deaths.” The “High Five Gun Death Rate” states are Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Montana — all with weak or nonexistent gun control. The states with the lowest gun death rates — Hawaii, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut — are all states with rigorous gun control laws.

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he trail of obfuscation leads back to one of Trump’s strongest backers, the National Rifle Association. They trumpet gun rights as being absolute, yet not even the late Justice Antonin Scalia agreed with them. He stated and restated that the Heller case in 2008 in no way overturned United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174, the famous and still precedent-establishing 1939 case. He writes: “We therefore read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short barreled shotguns.”

Scalia could have included military assaulttype weapons and magazines that carry more than a reasonable number of rounds. In Canada that reasonable number for some weapons is five; for other weapons, it’s upward of 10, but no more. Following the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, police found 154 shell casings on the floor — mayhem that was unleashed in just five minutes.

I’d also note that the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban signed by Bill Clinton was challenged in court numerous times, to no avail.

Facing a surprisingly tough-minded Democratic minority, the current cowardly, Republicancontrolled Congress may actually enact more rigorous background checks. It’s the least they can do.

How things have changed. Former NRA president Karl Frederick, testifying before Congress in 1934, said, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I seldom carry one. … I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.” 

COMMENT | TRAIL MIX

Early Birds DECISION 2019

Spokane residents don’t get to vote for mayor until 2019. But City Council President BEN STUCKART has already declared that, three years from now, he’ll be in the race. He filed back in April. These campaigns, Stuckart says, have to start early. In 2012, recently re-elected Mayor DAVID CONDON started campaigning almost immediately as well.

“I think I’m going to have to start on fundraising in early 2017,” Stuckart says, “because I think it’s going to take quite a bit.”

But the positions of mayor and city council president are both capped at two terms. Condon’s last year as mayor, no matter how popular he is, arrives in 2019. So does Stuckart’s last year as city council president. While he still has three years left in his second term, Stuckart believes he can continue to build on his accomplishments when he runs for mayor.

“I think I’ve been one of the most successful legislators in the last 15 years in Spokane. I’ve shown I can maneuver around the city well,” Stuckart says. “Now we [need to] grow our economy to help everybody.”

Councilwomen LORI KINNEAR and KAREN STRATTON also have already filed for the 2019 race. Kinnear already has a donation on record for 2019: $500 from the Washington Association of Realtors PAC. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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HILLARY CLINTON is vetting at least three people to be her running mate: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But as she considers a potential vice president, she’s also reportedly worried about how her choice could affect congressional elections in 2018.

That she’s thinking that far ahead may demonstrate her confidence regarding winning the presidential election against presumptive GOP nominee DONALD TRUMP. But Clinton is also facing pressure from the Democratic Party and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid not to choose a senator whose seat would be filled by the choice of a Republican governor, should that senator be elected alongside Clinton.

Warren, however, would be the one exception, since Democrats are confident that her seat could be filled by another Democrat in a special election in 2017. And Warren, who took a while to actually endorse Clinton, recently made her debut with the Democratic nominee on the campaign trail in Ohio.

Warren used the opportunity to attack Trump, calling him “a small, insecure money-grubber who fights for no one but himself.”

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COMMENT | GUEST EDITORIAL “no” to things.

The girls were silent for a moment, then carefully inquisitive. Hidden between the questions, I picked up a clear message: We are not sure we recognize you right now. This time, fortunately, the reaction stemmed more from curiosity than fear. And it’s the opportunity I was looking for.

Hidden between the questions, I picked up a clear message: We are not sure we recognize you right now.

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surrendered to premature baldness at age 28. Just shaved it all off. You win, genetics. A decade later and no regrets. If I sleep in my Sunday best, I can be at church five minutes after waking up.

But on the night of the shearing, I was mortified. My 1-year-old daughter didn’t know who I was. What happened to the thin-haired guy who read and laughed with her? She treated this new imposter with stranger-danger stares and maintained a cold dis-

tance. It took a good amount of reading and laughing as Mr. Clean before she trusted me again.

Something similar happened a few months ago. I have two girls now, and I sat them down and told them Dad was selling the newspapers and going to do something else with his life. Kim and I owned the Liberty Lake Splash community newspaper for 12 years and founded the Current for Spokane Valley in 2012, so up until that point, Dad was the guy who straightened newspaper racks whenever the family walked into Papa Murphy’s and mostly cited “The Business” as the reason he said

It’s not that I recently decided I wanted to be a good dad after years of contentment with mediocre fatherhood.

I’ve always wanted to be a great dad. But sometimes priorities require you to remodel the entire living room, not just shift around the furniture. I didn’t need “Five Effective Strategies for Child-Rearing.” I needed a long look in the mirror. The problem wasn’t my fatherly skill set.

The problem was me.

The U.S.S. Josh doesn’t chart a new path with right-angle turns. I am working on making changes one degree, one day at a time. This mad, mad world we live in eats healthy priorities for breakfast, so every course correction is a fight.

For now, I’m focusing on three things. First, I’m working on being present in my life, and I am finding this an impossible task to do consistently without first freeing up a margin. For me, this was selling a business, but I imagine it’s quite different for everyone.

Second, I’m being more honest with myself about the empty underbelly of professional accomplishment. I still strive for excellence in all I do, I’m just trying to keep it from becoming the be-all, end-all. I read a great book called Soul Keeping recently in which author John Ortberg argued that the “most important thing in life is not what you do; it’s who you become.” That resonated some place deep and scary, because it separated who I actually was from what I was accomplishing. Not the same thing.

Finally, I’m working on living a good story. I’ve been in the story-writing business my whole life, yet I wasn’t seeing my day-in, day-out existence for the yawner it was.

As it turns out, I have some creative control in this life of mine, so I’m working on adding some chapters with adventure and intrigue and depth.

Call it character development. I’m looking at it as a chance to shave some fresh perspective into what it means when my girls say, “Dad.” n Josh Johnson lives in Liberty Lake with his wife, two daughters and his Yorkie named Fifa.

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Reactions to last week’s story on one man’s attempt to save Riverfront Park’s IMAX Theatre from demolition during park renovations:

ERIKA DEASY: Who wants to pay to park and walk into the IMAX and sit in uncomfortable seats for a couple of hours? Not it.

LARRY CEBULA: I think the IMAX building is every bit as iconic as the clock tower or the Monroe Street Bridge. Beautiful mid-century design — I’d love to see it saved! But what does one do with a five-story, windowless concrete silo if not enough folks want to see movies in it anymore? I think it is doomed.

DAVID TREMBLAY: All of Riverfront Park should be closed down. It is simply too expensive.

COLLEEN SCOTT: No one really wants to see the boring, school field trip movies (yes, some are good and interesting). If it played big-budget movies, I’d be there! Renovate the seating, put some care into it, take out the arcade, maybe a nice restaurant. I mean, the whole park doesn’t have to cater to children all the time. It’s not an amusement park. 

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Masters of Eminent Domain The city relies on a rarely used power to force a property sale — but was forcing the issue really necessary?

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on Brown doesn’t talk like he’s a defiant last man standing.

On a windy Friday morning, he’s looking across the parking lot of Brown Building Materials, the construction supply company his family has owned since 1959, pointing to the chalk lines marking the triangleshaped chunk of the lot that the city of Spokane has tried to persuade him to sell.

Now, the city is forcing the issue.

That chunk — just 3,100 square feet — is the final piece of land the city needs to complete the long-anticipated Martin Luther King Jr. Way, creating a crucial thoroughfare for the University District and connecting downtown Spokane with the east side.

More than $12 million in state and federal grants has been earmarked for the project, and some of that funding could be lost if the city doesn’t hurry up.

The city has managed to get agreements from 11 other property owners. But despite more than two years of attempts at negotiation, Brown’s piece of property, situated on Erie Street at the end of the MLK route, represents the final roadblock.

He says he’s concerned about the impact of losing a piece of his parking lot, and one of the two entrances to his facility. He’s concerned it could impact semi-truck traffic entering and ...continued on next page

Brown Building Materials owner Ron Brown says he just wants a fair deal from the city. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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Yet he doesn’t speak about the situation in apocalyptic or angry terms. He’s open about the fact that, really, he’s not quite sure how much the loss would harm his business.

“I want someone who can analyze it better than I can,” Brown says. “I want an engineer to look at it.”

Last week, however, the city council voted, 5-2, to unholster a rarely used weapon, forcing Brown to sell that part of his property. The city has the power of eminent domain, condemning a property to force a sale, as long as they can prove it’s in the public interest.

Brown isn’t angry about that either. He’s hired Bob Dunn — an attorney famous for suing the city and winning big — to represent him. He suggests that eminent domain, and the jury verdict that might follow, is his best shot at getting a fair deal.

“I think it’s working the way it should. If you can’t come to an agreement, there is a process,” Brown says. “I believe in our system.”

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Eminent domain wasn’t the council’s first choice, City Council President Ben Stuckart says, but its last. He says the council urged the city staff to keep trying to negotiate until they couldn’t try anymore.

“We’re already tagged, because of things like the [mandatory sick leave policy], as the anti-business council,” Stuckart says. “That’s why it took so long. None of us wanted to do this.”

Eminent domain is the same tool that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump attempted to use, unsuccessfully, to force an old lady to sell him her home in order to expand the parking lot for one of his casinos.

It’s also a tool crucial for governments to complete highways and public projects. Spokane has used it before. More than a century ago, the city used the tool to force the sale of a property at Wall Street and Spokane Falls Boulevard, and converted the building into City Hall. The city has used it a handful of times since, including for the Havana Street bridge project and for the park-

ing lot that, years later, became the Davenport Grand Hotel.

It’s been a dozen years since the city received state and federal grants earmarked for MLK Way, and city staff have suggested that some of that funding could evaporate if the project is not completed by the end of 2017.

“If we want a road to nowhere, we will do nothing,” Stuckart said last week from the council dais. “But I believe we need to act.”

City spokeswoman Marlene Feist, however, says the city hasn’t been given a hard and fast deadline. Still, she says that federal funders have been pushing for “specific plans to get the money spent quickly” in order to keep their grants.

In his council comments, Stuckart laid the blame at the feet of Brown, suggesting that what he was asking was unreasonable.

“When you’re offering someone $35,000, and their negotiation wants over $1 million, I don’t think that’s what the citizens want us to be buckling to,” Stuckart says.

But Brown insists that he never named a price for a counteroffer, $1 million or otherwise.

Instead, his desire was far more general.

“They asked me what I wanted, and I told them that, everything considered, I’d sooner move,” Brown says. The estimate of more than $1 million is the city’s calculation, taking into account the price for the city to purchase the entire property and help Brown with relocation.

“Take a look at the building,” Brown says. “I wouldn’t have built that building where it is, if the new road was here when I built it.”

Kyle Twohig, director of engineering services for the city of Spokane, told the council that Brown has been offered a number of concessions to ease the impact of the project on his property, including stormwater facilities, driveway modifications and three times the number of parking spaces.

Councilman Mike Fagan decided to investigate the issue the old-fashioned way; he walked into Brown’s business two weeks ago to talk face-to-face.

“He just showed up one day,” Brown says.

“He just wanted to know my side of it.”

During their two visits, Fagan concluded that Brown hadn’t been made fully aware of some of the city’s offers on the table, including a land swap deal that would have included a new road to the back of his property. He says he even offered to delay the vote so Brown could further consider the option, but says that Brown indicated he wasn’t interested.

Fagan suggests that the route could have been moved slightly, or the type of road changed, to avoid Brown’s property.

“We did have an alternative we could have explored,” Fagan says.

But speaking to the council, Twohig says those ideas had been considered and rejected.

“All of the alternatives won’t really serve the intended public use as an arterial and an oversized truck route,” Twohig said. Not only that, but changing the project would require more negotiations with other property owners.

Fagan wasn’t convinced. “[Eminent domain] should always be the last resort, when all other alternatives have been exhausted,” he says. “In this case, I got a clear indication that they weren’t.”

He voted to oppose the city’s use of eminent domain. Candace Mumm — a liberal-leaning councilwoman competing with two Republicans in this year’s county commissioner race — joined Fagan in his opposition, citing similar concerns.

“I wasn’t comfortable with it. I’m not a big fan of eminent domain,” Mumm says. “It seems like something that should have been worked out a long time ago.”

The Inlander requested an interview with city staff to further investigate which offers had been made, and when they’d been rejected. But the moment the council voted to approve the use of eminent domain, it suddenly became a matter of pending litigation, and the city was unwilling to speak about it with the media.

Brown is similarly wary of getting too deep into detail.

“We’ve been talking,” Brown says. “But the last thing I’ve seen says ‘Confidential,’ so I probably shouldn’t talk about it.”

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Armed with the power to force a sale via eminent domain, it may seem like the city has the upper hand over Brown. But when it comes to the sale price itself, Spokane could be at the whims of a jury. That often doesn’t work out in the city’s favor.

Back in the ’90s, the city moved to use eminent domain during a three-year legal battle to force a sale of a property north of the downtown library. Steve and Leslie Ronald wanted to build a seven-story riverfront condo on the property, while the city wanted to preserve the view of the falls.

The tactic backfired, and a jury awarded the Ronalds the full $2.18 million they requested — orders of magnitude greater than the city argued the property was worth. It left councilmembers back then scrambling to figure out if they actually even wanted the property at that price after all.

Dunn has been down this road plenty of times before. When he faced off against the state in an eminent domain case in 1996, the jury delivered the property owners $3.5 million, nearly 90 times what the state had originally offered.

“I don’t remember the last time a jury did not award a number far in excess that the county or state or city has been insisting on,” Dunn says. “Everybody understands being paid a fair price for what you own.”

He’s been involved in other cases, too, where the jury found that taking one small piece of property impacted the rest.

“They’re not taking much of his property? They’re just taking his entrance,” Dunn says. “That’s like saying you’re only going to take a little bit of your body — we’re going to take your heart, we’re going to leave the other 90 percent.”

A long, costly trial isn’t guaranteed. Both Brown and the city will continue to negotiate. And Dunn knows that the pressure the feds are applying on the city to finish the project quickly gives him extra negotiating power.

“This certainly could settle,” Dunn says. “I think it boils down to money. All of these eminent domain cases I get involved in center on the issues of money.” n danielw@inlander.com

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Q&A PHIL TYLER P

hil Tyler’s mother told him to do, rather than say. He took that advice to heart. Tyler, 49, serves on several local boards and commissions, including the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Multicultural Affairs, the Every Student Counts Alliance and the Spokane County Human Rights Task Force, to name only three. During his 16-year career as a corrections officer in the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, he became the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant, and earlier this year he posted 22 videos, one per day, of himself doing push-ups to raise awareness of the prevalence of suicide among military members.

Last week, he was named president of the Spokane NAACP. We sat down with the ever-smiling Tyler (pictured) to talk about his vision for the future of the organization, and issues facing communities of color in Spokane.

INLANDER: What needs to happen in order for the NAACP to grow?

TYLER: I would say we need to attract more younger members. People 40 and under are underrepresented.

They may not have marched in the ’60s, but they’ve experienced police brutality and discrimination.

What are the issues facing the NAACP right now?

Collaboration with law enforcement and criminal justice reform are at the top of that list. Then there’s also the disparities in our educational system, where children

of color are are disproportionately expelled or suspended.

Once you lose a kid to the system, it’s hard to get them back.

Can you give an example of collaboration with law enforcement?

How about the lack of funding for the minority contact study? The data is there, and municipalities put money toward the issues that are important to them.

You’ve filed a claim against Spokane County for discrimination stemming from your time working in the jail.

Tell us about that.

The matter is still pending, so I can’t say much. I will say I believe I was subject to a hostile work environment, disparate treatment and discrimination. It’s not unique to the jail. Things happen within the city’s police department and the Sheriff’s Office. Institutions like those try to maintain their status, and those within the organization surround themselves with their in-groups. If you’re not, you may be subject to a different level of treatment.

You have two young sons; do you make it a point to talk to them about interacting with law enforcement?

Certainly. I tell them to respect law enforcement, and really adults outside the home, but recently I’ve had to recast that talk. I tell them that if they’re stopped by an officer, please don’t give them a reason to use deadly force. At the same time, I let them know, “If an officer stops you and asks to search your car without probable cause, you tell them no.” I want to make sure they’re protecting their constitutional rights, and any officer worth his or her badge will respect that.

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ARTS The long-in-the-works report from the state auditor’s office concerning the NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CULTURE is damning in what it reveals about the practices of former director Forrest Rodgers, and the oversight of the museum’s board and foundation. The report details Rodgers’ alleged mismanagement — including $21,000 in bonuses for himself — and numerous instances of improperly blurring the boundaries between the museum and its foundation.

It also concludes that Rodgers interfered with the state’s investigation by sending a letter to a witness’s employer, incorrectly conveying claims he thought that the witness had made to the investigator. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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EDUCATION Eastern Washington University has announced that it has cut undergraduate TUITION for the second year in a row. The tuition rate for the 2016-17 school year will be $5,995, or just $1,998 per quarter — a 15 percent reduction from the previous year. This means that tuition rates overall have dropped by 20 percent in two years. The cuts are the result of the state Legislature increasing spending on higher education in the twoyear budget passed last year. Similar tuition reductions have occurred at Washington State University, the University of Washington, and Western and Central Washington universities.

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‘Bigger To-Do List’ Efforts to include racial distinctions in SPD data stall; plus, Obama stumps for Inslee BLACK, WHITE... AND GREEN

Efforts to dig deeper into Spokane police interactions with citizens by RACE have slowed due to a lack of funding, recent instability in police leadership and bad timing.

Eastern Washington University professor Ed Byrnes partnered with Spokane Police Capt. Brad Arleth to collect data on officer contacts with citizens, broken down by race.

In March 2015, Byrnes and Arleth released a report that showed SPD officers stop African Americans and Native Americans disproportionately, but cautioned that more context was needed to understand those numbers.

Community members expressed concern, but praised the efforts as a positive step and looked forward to a second report, which was expected later that year. It never came.

Now, Arleth says, they’ve collected data for about 28,000 stops spanning 18 months, which offers a much more precise picture of police and citizen interaction. This data indicates that Spokane police stop African Americans and Native Americans 5.9 percent and 2.8 percent of the time, respectively — a disproportionately higher rate

than their representation in Spokane’s population. Again, Arleth cautions that a more in-depth analysis is needed to contextualize these results. To do that, Byrnes says, he needs more time and money.

Byrnes asked the city for compensation to pay for one of his classes at Eastern so he can devote time to analyzing the data further, but has not heard back. Gloria Ochoa-Bruck, the city’s director of multicultural affairs, says Byrnes’ proposal was not included in this year’s budget, due in part to confusion among the three different police department leaders since September 2015.

However, Arleth and Byrnes plan to meet with Jacquie van Wormer, administrator of the Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council, to discuss expanding the project to a regional level.

“This question of racial disparities in policing goes back a long time in Spokane and nationwide,” Arleth says. “The reality is we didn’t have the data and couldn’t answer the question. I think communities don’t accept anecdotal answers of ‘We don’t do that.’ They want to see some data, and I’m confident this is moving forward.”

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Anti-oil-train protesters interrupted President BARACK OBAMA’S speech at a fundraiser held last week in Seattle for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s re-election campaign.

“Mr. President, use your authority to ban oil trains now!” shouted a protester during Obama’s speech.

Obama, at first, strained to hear what the topic of the shouting was before responding.

“This is what I love about the Democratic Party,” said a smiling Obama. “Doesn’t matter how much I do, I always have a bigger to-do list.” The president noted that he helped negotiate the Paris Agreement, a global accord intended to address climate change, but apparently it wasn’t enough for the protester. “So I still have six months, give me a little time,” he continued, referencing the time he has left in office. “We’re going to use those six months.”

Concern about trains carrying volatile crude oil, which regularly pass through Spokane and North Idaho, is increasing in the Pacific Northwest. Earlier this month, an oil train derailed in Mosier, Oregon. The derailment, which federal regulators blamed on Union Pacific for failing to maintain its track, caused an oil spill, sparked a fire and prompted the evacuation of the town on the Columbia River. In response, local officials and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown have called for moratoriums on oil trains.

During the exchange between the protestor and the president, Inslee sat on stage wearing a big grin. According a statement from his office, Inslee met with Sarah Feinberg, administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, last week to discuss the governor’s options for stopping the shipment of Bakken crude oil by rail in Washington state, as well as hastening and improving the inspections of railroad tracks. (JAKE THOMAS)

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NEWS | ENVIRONMENT

Cause for Alarm Residents of a remote part of Stevens County say something is making them sick, but no one is sure exactly what it is

BY JAKE THOMAS

T

he mysterious deaths began with the chickens.

Gina Britton recalls how they became lethargic and their appetites decreased before their seizures

began.

“Their heads would arch back and their mouths would open, and they would look like they were gasping for breath,” recalls Britton. “They would violently throw themselves on the ground.”

Next, the goats and the rabbits started having similar seizures before dying with their backs arched in the same contorted position.

Neither Britton nor Tim Loe, her partner, expected this to happen when they purchased about 20 acres in the mountains outside of Northport in 2011. They bought chickens, goats and rabbits. They grew pears, apples and cherries. They wanted to leave behind city life, processed foods and exposure to everyday chemicals. They had their water tested to make sure it was free of contaminants.

In the spring of 2012, when the snowpack thawed, the animals began dying. Loe came down with ulcerative colitis, a debilitating bowel disease that left him bedridden, sometimes for months. Britton came down with shingles that fall. In total, they say they lost about 10 goats and 100 chickens over the next two years.

“We could never get our numbers up,” says Loe. “So this is affecting our ability to even put together an agricultural operation.”

Just down the road, Gale Anderson says that four of her cats suddenly died last year within a week in February from what a veterinarian determined was kidney failure. “They just dropped over dead,” she recalls. “I got up one morning and the one came into the kitchen foaming at the mouth and died.”

In March, her husband Glen suddenly had a stroke.

Later in August, the day before she went to pick him up from the hospital in Spokane, the couple’s miniature Australian shepherd died from kidney failure. Farther down the road, their nephew, John Murphy, says that this year two calves from his small herd of cows were born premature and one was stillborn.

None of these residents of this remote and sparsely populated corner of northeastern Washington know what’s causing these deaths and illnesses.

But they have some theories:  The area is downwind and downriver from a smelter across the border in British Columbia. Although one study found an unusually high concentration of cases of ulcerative colitis in the area, government agencies haven’t come to any conclusions on what kind of health effects the smelter is having on residents.  Others suspect, however, that herbicides used by

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Tim Loe and his partner, Gina Britton, worry that something uphill is making their goats sick. various logging companies in the area are really to blame.

“There had to be something in the water that caused it because what else is there?” says Gale Anderson. “It could happen [again] to us any time.”

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ack in the 1980s, Clifford Ward, a longtime area resident, planted trees in Idaho and Washington for the U.S. Forest Service.

“In those days they almost never, ever sprayed [herbicides],” recalls Ward. “They’d clear-cut, and if they did anything, they would burn, and then we’d go in and plant from there, and everything always did fine.”

But he says that timber companies are now more inclined to use herbicides. Last year, Ward says that Inland Empire Paper Company, which owns more than 116,000 acres of timberland in northeastern Washington and North Idaho, contacted him, telling him they’d be spraying herbicides on clearcut land that drains into a spring he used for drinking water on his land outside of Northport.

Ward says he asked the company not to spray. They did anyway, and he moved to Northport.

“I don’t know why some people think these herbicides aren’t dangerous, if you just look at the back and read the warnings,” says Ward. About two years ago, he says he was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a rare neurological disorder. He doesn’t know what’s causing it.

In an email exchange, Paul Buckland, Inland Empire Paper Company’s forest resource manager, writes that herbicides are expensive and are only used in low concentrations when weeds are aggressively competing with seedlings for sunlight, moisture and nutrients. “If herbicides are used at all, they are used only once in a forest cycle, which is approximately 80 years,” he writes.

“Federal and state laws are designed to prevent herbicides from adversely affecting water quality, people, animals, or aquatic life,” Buckland continues. “As sustainable foresters, [Inland Empire Paper] meets or exceeds these rule parameters with prudent buffers that are installed by professionals and approved by the appropriate regulating agencies.”

In both Washington and Idaho, makers of pesticides and herbicides must register their products with the state Department of Agriculture. Products must include a label, approved by the Environmental Protection Agency,

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describing its dangers and how it is to be used. George Robinson, administrator of the Idaho DOA, says that his agency’s primary regulation is making sure that label’s direction is followed.

Washington has more regulation on herbicides than Idaho; a company wanting to apply herbicides must apply to the state Department of Natural Resources for a permit. Washington requires buffers around homes, agricultural land and streams. Logging companies will hire crews to spray by hand. If a company uses a helicopter, they have to make sure the spray doesn’t drift.

Wyatt Golding, an attorney at the Washington Forest Law Center, says the public can look up permits on DNR’s cumbersome website. But the permits are for three-year periods, and he says they don’t say anything about what was sprayed, and when. Companies have to post signs indicating they intend to spray within five days, but he says that some residents still wake up surprised to see helicopters spraying land next to them.

Golding adds that current regulations intended to keep herbicides out of water don’t do enough to prevent them from getting into seasonal streams, domestic wells or groundwater. “There’s a pretty good likelihood that it gets in the water,” he says.

Many problems between landowners and timber companies, says Golding, could be resolved with better communication. Megan Dunn, with the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, says that her group is petitioning the state Forest Practices Board for a rule that would make info on spraying more readily available.

Loe points to permits authorizing spraying uphill from his property, where he suspects it’s getting into the spring he uses for water. He’s particularly concerned about some of the chemicals sprayed in the area, such as 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, an active ingredient in Agent Orange, a powerful herbicide widely used during the Vietnam War; imazapyr, a non-selective herbicide which is banned in the European Union; glyphosate, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer says causes cancer in humans; and atrazine, which is also banned in the EU. Heather Hansen, executive director of Washington Friends of Farmers & Forests, a trade group that represents the forest products industry, says that before an herbicide is approved for use, it’s thoroughly tested to

make sure it’s not harmful to humans or animals.

Hansen says it’s “incredibly unlikely” that herbicides get into the water, because buffers prevent logging near streams or waterways. “[Our regulations are] based on science and data, and the EU is often based on public opinion,” she says.

Stephen Fitzgerald, a professor at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, says that herbicides are applied in such small doses that they are unlikely to affect human health, especially if the instructions on the label are followed. He says that foresters apply them carefully, because they cannot afford to make mistakes.

Hector Castro, spokesman for the Washington State Department of Agriculture, says that if foresters do make mistakes, there will be penalties. According to Castro, the department conducted 123 investigations involving pesticides or herbicides in the past year, 58 of which involved drift from helicopters. Forty-five percent of the investigations, he says, involved some sort of enforcement action by the department.

But Lisa Arkin, executive director of the Oregon-based environmental advocacy organization Beyond Toxics, says that the effects these chemicals could have on humans haven’t been studied, nor has there been enough study on what kind of effects these chemicals could have when combined.

“The fact that they are spraying this from helicopters just boggles my mind,” she says.

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cross the border in Trail, British Columbia, Teck Resources Limited operates a metal smelter in existence since 1906. It has discharged millions of tons of slag, a glass-like byproduct containing toxic metals, into the Columbia River, as well as tens of thousands of tons of mercury, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals from its smokestack.

In 1999, the Colville Tribe successfully petitioned the EPA to conduct an assessment of environmental contamination in the Upper Columbia River. Initial EPA studies have indicated that there is contamination in lake and river sediment, and a 2011 study found that in Northport, the number of diagnosed cases of ulcerative colitis were 11 to 15 times higher than elsewhere. However, government agencies, including the EPA and the Washington State Department of Ecology, have been unable to draw links between the pollution and any illness.

“If you look at ulcerative colitis and what are [its] causes, at least from my understanding there is no definitive link,” says Matt Schanz, environmental health director with the Northeast Tri County Health District.

Schanz says the district conducted screening for lead blood levels, which are typically high in areas near smelters, earlier this year. The results found normal levels.

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astro says the Department of Agriculture hasn’t investigated any complaints from Loe, because he hasn’t provided any evidence that there has been drift from aerial sprays, nor has he provided proof that the herbicides affected his animals.

But Loe and Britton say they just don’t have the money to have their dead animals tested. Last spring, their dog had a stroke, and two goats and 15 rabbits died. Loe keeps several dead rabbits in the freezer in hopes of testing them one day. They haven’t had any die-offs this year, but DNR has issued permits for spraying on land uphill from them.

Britton says they didn’t even suspect herbicides were an issue until last year, when Ward discovered there was spraying in the area. EPA testing hasn’t found any contamination from the smelter in their soil. Loe says that they tried to get their water tested for herbicides sooner, but the lab’s $1,000 cost was too expensive. They convinced a lab to test for $150 this year. The results found no herbicides.

Golding, of the Washington Forest Law Center, says that it’s hard to detect the presence of herbicides in water or people, because the chemicals pass through water so quickly.

“That’s part of the challenge in all of this,” he says. “It’s very difficult to find really how much contamination is going on in the state.”  jaket@inlander.com

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NEWS | EDUCATION

Too Smart for School What happens when a 12-year-old prodigy tries to go to college in Spokane?

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

M

alika Halvorson has it all figured out. First, she’ll attend Spokane Falls Community College. Then she’ll transfer to the Art Institute in Seattle. After graduating, she’ll move to Japan to teach English and earn her Master’s degree, so that one day she can realize her dream of producing comics and cartoons.

There’s just one problem: She’s 12.

Malika is a prodigy. That’s something her mom, Melissa Halvorson, knew ever since Malika could count to 20 in three languages at 18 months old. And Malika learned how gifted she was as soon as she started school.

“Whenever I was in school, I would always catch on a lot faster than everybody else in my class,” she says. “I would catch on to everything.”

So quickly, in fact, that seemingly no school in Spokane has been able to keep up. Now, after feeling bored and unchallenged everywhere she goes — either public, private, or homeschool — Malika wants to test her limits in college.

But while she feels ready to attend college, the college may not be ready for her.

Malika tried to register for classes at Spokane Falls Community College but was turned down, even though she scored high marks in the math portion of the placement test and nearly perfectly in the English portion.

There is no age limit for enrollment in Washington community colleges. To be considered, underage students must have authorization from their school district, which Malika has. But she also must be approved for admission by the school, and thus far SFCC has not felt comfortable allowing a 12-year-old on campus.

It’s a rare situation with seemingly no easy answers.

And as Malika and her mom figure out where to go from here, local schools and community colleges are reconsidering how best to handle young prodigies.

“They want her to fit into a category that she doesn’t exactly fit into,” says Melissa Halvorson. “But then what?

Is she gonna get bored? I don’t want to see her throw her dreams away, which I don’t think she would do. But what happens if she has to sit around? What would a 20-year-old do if they couldn’t pursue something they wanted to pursue?”

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n their home in west Spokane, Malika shows off a watercolor painting she made in between art classes in school. Next, she pulls out her book of anime drawings, Japanese-style animation.

“I just really enjoy the feeling that you can see in all of the characters. When you draw something, you really put your feeling into it,” she says. “I like seeing how they come out, and the emotions that they hold.”

When she’s not drawing, she’s usually reading. She

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Malika Halvorson, 12, wants to earn a Master’s by the time she turns 21. finishes at least five books a week. Sara Devins, a former longtime teacher at Hutton Elementary who taught Malika the final three weeks of sixth grade as a substitute, says she formed a bond with Malika after discussing books with her. Devins would recommend a novel, and they would go over the material while other kids were at recess.

“Malika was very sophisticated, and she grasped concepts and subtexts,” Devins says. “I found her to be energized and excited about learning — unusually so.”

In elementary school, Malika wanted to skip grades, but school officials advised against it. Instead, she would ask teachers from those higher grades to give her extra homework.

Debra DeWitt, principal at Libby Center, which is home to multiple programs for gifted students in Spokane Public Schools, says she noticed that the district was reluctant to let kids skip grades when she started working for SPS a couple of years ago.

“When I brought it up, I received gasps, like ‘We don’t do that!” DeWitt says. “It’s very common in many other places, it’s just not a practice that’s happened here very often.”

Malika has checked out programs for gifted students in Spokane Public Schools, but none fit her, she says.

Now she is being homeschooled by her mom, herself a single mother of two children pursuing a college degree.

“There’s a lot of bright kids out there. There’s a lot of intelligent kids,” Melissa says. “But I feel like there’s a different level of motivation [with Malika] — she has goals

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and dreams and she’s willing to pursue and work towards things.”

What’s always been unique about Malika, her mom says, is how she always wanted to share her knowledge with other kids at a young age. She was always teaching, always trying to help her friends. That spirit — along with a fascination with Japanese culture — is what motivates Malika to teach English in Japan and try earn her Master’s by the time she turns 21.

But she’ll have to get into college first.

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he decision whether to admit Malika into SFCC ultimately is in the hands of Darren Pitcher, SFCC vice president of student services. He points out that there are other things to consider when it comes to a 12-year-old going to college, including that child’s safety on an open-access campus.

“We just don’t treat our student body like a K-12 school does,” he says. “I need to make sure this student has a certain maturity level, to make sure this student can handle themselves in a variety of situations.”

Glen Cosby, VP of student services at SCC, says it would be difficult for him to conceive a situation in which a 12-year-old takes college courses on campus. An exception would more likely be made for a math prodigy who has exhausted all the math curricula in high school.

“College is intended for adults,” Cosby says. “Material covered in classes can sometimes deal with ideas or topics not suitable for children. It might be traumatizing for a person who, developmentally, is not in that stage of

life.”

Community Colleges of Spokane is now considering updating its policy so that an underage student must fill out a form outlining their educational goals. They would also need include a letter of recommendation with their application. (Pitcher says this potential policy update was not in response to Malika.)

DeWitt, with Spokane Public Schools, says that even though she has never seen a student Malika’s age attend college in Spokane, it is more common in other states. It can be done, she says, as long as everyone is careful.

“This is just something that has to be really carefully monitored if this student does end up going to SCC or SFCC,” DeWitt says.

Devins, the former Hutton Elementary teacher, says the social situation for young students wanting to go to college should certainly be considered. But if enthusiasm is any indicator, then she says Malika could handle college material.

“If someone’s excited and wants to learn and feels like they can,” she says, “why would you stop them if they are competent and capable of doing the work?”

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ven though Malika wasn’t able to take college courses this summer as she had hoped, she won’t let the summer go to waste. There’s more learning to do. She and her mom are taking an online math course together.

Pitcher, as of press time, says he will continue to work with Malika and her mother on the best option for her, and he is still considering her application. Although he initially said he could not envision a 12-year-old on a college campus, he says that many questions he had regarding her maturity and plan of action were answered when he met with Malika last week. The situation is not cut and dry, he said.

Malika is not interested in returning to a classroom with people her own age.

“I don’t want to do that,” she says. “I want to advance further.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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You Can Do This The Great Outdoors. Yeah, that’s a bit of a cliché, in addition to the title of an underrated John Candy/Dan Aykroyd film. ways to break into a few different sports.

We even have a testimonial from a woman who stumbled into a hobby as a competitive sailor. There’s also the skinny on how to get a cheap bike, overcome your fear of sheer rock walls and rekindle your lost love of water skiing, and even the very basics on going camping. Come on: You can do this.

— MIKE BOOKEY Section Editor, Casual Outdoorsman

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But the outdoor opportunities we have here in the Inland Northwest are unique, and we’re lucky to have such lakes, rivers, mountains, trails and trees within such close proximity. You don’t get that everywhere, so we want you to get out there and give the outdoors a go. We know that outdoor recreation, with all the associated equipment and hard-core experts, can be intimidating. That’s why we’ve given you

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Start With a Tent...

Start with a tent and work from there when assembling your camping arsenal.

Camping is basically just sleeping outside. Here’s how to get started

BY DAN NAILEN

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any Inland Northwest residents consider it criminal to miss out on the natural wonders readily available here, and can’t imagine life without occasionally packing up and hitting the backcountry, away from the travails of city life.

I plead guilty to neglecting our outdoorsy opportunities, particularly backpacking and camping. Most of my experience in those pursuits is relegated to a few half-assed years as a Cub Scout, and I’m pretty clueless as to just what I need to spend a night under the stars.

Enter John Schwartz, a friendly retail manager at Spokane’s Mountain Gear for more than 20 years, who agreed to act as a personal camping consultant. Using a hypothetical overnight trip as our starting point, we came up with a list of must-haves:

TENT

Obvious, right? But not all tents are created equal. For a two-person tent, you can easily spend anywhere from $50 to $500; “the lighter the tent, the higher the price,” Schwartz notes. Expect to get cozy with your fellow trip-taker, or you might need something bigger. And while most prioritize the tent’s weight, Schwartz says that’s a mistake: “Ventilation is the last thing people ask about, but it’s the first thing you need to think about.” So be sure to ask the salesperson how well your tent lets the air through.

SLEEPING BAGS AND PADS

Rocks and uneven ground conspire to keep you from comfortable snoozing. There are plenty of sleeping pads on the market to help, from the $54 RidgeRest pad to a luxurious $160 Therm-a-Rest NeoAir XLite pad. What you require, Schwartz says, depends on “how old you are, what kind of comfort you want, and how long you’re out there.” Same goes for your sleeping bag; you can choose between long-lasting (but more expensive) down bags or cheaper synthetic-filling bags that might be just fine for a weekend warrior. It all depends on how warm you need to be. As Schwartz notes, “July on Mt. Rainier is different than July at Priest Lake.”

BACKPACKS

All backpacks might look alike to you, but Schwartz is quick to note

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that there are a lot of things to consider. “We’re going to play 20 questions with you” to figure out the best pack, he says. Men and women have different shapes and need different packs, and you’ll want to try several on to determine what’s right for you.

FOOD AND WATER

This is where the decision to backpack instead of car-camp looms large. Instead of a cooler full of goodies, you’ll want to pack light and get some surprisingly tasty freeze-dried meals. Small camping stoves have gotten a lot better, Schwartz says, and the more efficient models like MSR’s Jetboil stoves will boil all the water you need for coffee and those meals-in-a-bag. A water filter is also a must to protect you from bacteria, whether you get a fancy 4-liter Autoflow Gravity Microfilter or use some tablets or drops to clean your water. “You can survive without food,” Schwartz says. “You can’t survive without water.”

CLOTHING

You want breathable layers that protect you from the elements and are easily shed when the day heats up, Schwartz says. Skip the jeans in favor of nylon and polyester, and wool socks are “a better bet than any cotton sock.” Comfortable hiking shoes or boots are a necessity.

“You can spend $10,000 on gear,” Schwartz says, “but if you have the wrong clothes, you’re going to be miserable.”

HEADLAMP

You want to see, right?

EXTRAS

Even backpacking can include some luxuries. Bring a book. Pack a solar charger or extra battery for your phone to take those killer selfies. The latest trend, Schwartz says, “isn’t a tent. It isn’t a bag. It’s a hammock.” And he recommends a water bladder instead of a water bottle, since the bladder will let you hydrate while you hike. People tend to not stop and sip as much as they should, and the bladder will help. Mostly, though, Schwartz says to “take your time. Smell the pine trees.” 

RENTALS AND CLASSES • The Spokane REI store at 1125 N. Monroe rents all manner of outdoor gear, and regularly hosts classes to help you take advantage of local outdoors opportunities. Upcoming free classes include Camp Cooking Basics (July 14), Map & Compass Navigation Basics (July 28) and the Backpacker Get Out More Tour (Sept. 1). Visit rei. com/stores/Spokane for more information • Mountain Gear, 2002 N. Division in Spokane, rents select gear and hosts classes and special events, in addition to doing expedition consulting.

• North Idaho College’s Outdoor Pursuits program rents backpacks, tents, sleeping bags and pads, water filters and more to the public. Visit nic.edu/op for more info.

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Water skiing doesn’t need to happen on vacation.

The Slalom Addiction

Water skiers are getting their runs however they can without going far from home

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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was one of those lucky kids who grew up with access to a family boat and the Inland Northwest’s various bodies of water. And in those days, if you had that sort of access you were going to water ski. Or at least try to water ski, and who knows, maybe you’d get good enough to “get up on one,” which, you should know, is actually called slalom skiing.

But by the time I headed to Los Angeles for college, chances to get on the water came only when I made it back up to Priest Lake on vacation. It didn’t help that the SoCal wakeboarding dudes I knew — one of whom even owned a boat — had never actually seen someone slalom ski, a sport that had by then faded from its early-’90s, televised-on-ESPN heyday.

Over the years, I came to think of water skiing as a vacation leisure activity, and engaging the sport to any further degree was prohibited by either a staggering entry

cost (quality ski boats, the ultimate status symbol of the Inland Northwest, are expensive) or geography. I’ve just realized, however, that there are people bucking that misconception, and they’re hardly leaving Spokane city limits to do it.

Ryan Terheggen grew up skiing on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where his family had a skiing business catering to tourists on a freshwater river. He was eventually lured to Priest Lake to work as a chef, where he continued to ski, but when he took a more 9-to-5 gig in Spokane, he realized that getting on the water without driving a couple of hours was a tough feat. That’s when he and his buddy Cameron Smith, a local firefighter, decided they were going to find a cheap ski boat, which they now keep at Clear Lake.

“This morning, for example, there were four of us out there at 7. We took a pull really quick and everyone

got a set in, and then we pulled the boat out and everyone went to work,” says Terheggen, who before getting the boat had dabbled with looking for skiing buddies online. He insists that’s not as weird as it sounds if you use sites like ski-it-again.com.

The boat they ended up with was a 1994 Ski Nautique for about $2,000. That’s a steal, but they had to go to an out-of-the-way Northern California town to buy it from a recently released convict. When they got there, Smith and Terheggen saw that one side of the boat had been damaged when the building next to where it was stored had burned down. When they tried to go back on the deal, the convict and his brothers said no dice.

So they brought it back north and have been skiing with it since. There’s no speedometer and the fiberglass is in rough shape, but they love their “Town Boat,” as they’ve come to call it.

“It’s been great to have this boat out there,” says Smith. “Our wives don’t think it’s as great as we do, though.”

You don’t have to travel the West Coast in search of a shady character looking to unload a boat to get yourself back into water skiing. You can join a group like the Lake Spokane Waterski Club, which uses a slalom course near Nine Mile.

One of the club’s organizers, Dave Duer, had been away from skiing for 20 years after moving away from Spokane for college, then traveling the world as an accountant. But after bringing his family back to Spokane about five years ago, Duer and others decided to get back on the water. The club has open ski sessions on Wednesday evenings that require just a gas fee of about $20 for two runs. They’ve also hosted ski, wakeboard and wake surf competitions. There are competitive skiers out there, but the club wants to remain as inclusive as possible.

“The idea is to just get people out skiing. Our idea is to have a little bit of access because this sport is expensive and it’s also an extremely hard sport, and it’s frustrating.

You ski for five minutes and then you’re absolutely wiped out,” says Duer.

To ski with the Lake Spokane club, visit their Facebook page for updates to confirm which days the club is skiing, then drop them a message letting them know you’d like to come out and join them.

For skiers like Terheggen, who want to get on the water without driving a couple of hours or taking out a second mortgage, finding ways to ski even on a weekday is something a lot of people might not understand. Water skiing has a way of being invisible like that.

“For a lot of slalom skiers, you’re a slalom skier and you’re out there by 6 and done before [a casual boater] is even on the water,” he says. “It’s about skiing; getting some exercise. Whenever we can fit it in to get a couple pulls in, we will, and then go back to work.” n

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Spokane County operates water parks, as well: • Southside Family Aquatic Facility (3724 E. 61st Ave.)

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aybe you rode bikes as a kid and “grew up” into an adult who sits in traffic. Maybe you’ve seen adults who glide through rush-hour traffic on their bikes or hit mountain trails after work with a kid-like enthusiasm.

Maybe you’ve thought about joining their ranks, but are unsure how to do it. With the summer upon us, now is the time. It’s not that hard. After all, riding a bike is something you never forget.

FIND YOUR WHEELS

Barb Kehr, president of the Spokane Bike Club,

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says that before you find a bike, you need to know why you want to ride. Do you want to hit trails, cruise around the neighborhood, commute to work, win the Tour de France?

“People enjoyed biking when they were young, and they know they like to ride,” says Kehr. But if you’re not sure you like to ride, she suggests renting a bike.

If you do decide you like it, she recommends going to a bike shop and getting measured, so you know what bikes will fit you. While there are good deals at area bike stores, she suggests

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checking out Mosaic Community Bike Shop (611 W. Second; mosaicspokane.com), which sells many refurbished bikes for as little as $30.

Doug Porter, a trained bike mechanic and manager at Mosaic, adds that Cool Water Bikes (224 S. Howard; coolwaterbikes. wordpress.com) is another affordable bike nonprofit. He says that comfort is key to selecting a bike, and that generally you should be able to straddle the bike’s frame and have an inch of space between its top tube and your crotch. But if a larger or smaller bike is more comfortable, he says to go for it.

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Yard sales and Craigslist can be good places to find a starter bike.

Porter says the most important thing to look at is the bike’s frame.

If it’s bent, dented or has rust covering its joints, Porter says to avoid it. See if the wheels are straight, the tires hold air and the brakes and shifters work. Even if they don’t, the bike likely can be fixed up.

If you want to make the repairs yourself, Mosaic will rent out stands for $10 an hour and even help you out. Porter says there are also YouTube videos showing how to fix a flat, adjust brakes and other basic repairs.

Unless you’re mechanically inclined by nature, learning how to repair bikes takes patience and a willingness to get your hands covered in grease. But knowing that your bike works because of your own efforts is priceless.

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BEFORE YOU GET PEDALING

Get a helmet (you’re required to wear one in the city of Spokane) and a set of front and back lights. Get a good U-lock. It’s a metal lock shaped like a “U” and is vastly more reliable than a cheaper wire lock. U-locks may be a bit heavier, but many come with kits to mount them on your bike. Porter says there are some metal chains that also work well. Getting a patch kit to fix flats is a good idea. Also, register your bike with the city (SpokaneBikeID.org) so you can be reunited if it gets stolen.

GET PEDALING!

Barb Kehr says that the Centennial Trail and Fish Lake Trail are great places to get acclimated to biking. She says that riding with a group might be helpful for some beginner riders, and recommends calling around bike shops to find what’s offered.

When you’re ready to try some city riding, she suggests taking a class offered by the Spokane Regional Health District on the ins and outs of riding in urban environments. More information can be found at walkbikebus.org.

Mariah McKay, a public health educator with the district (and Inlander columnist), says the class prepares new riders for riding in traffic and points out what streets are best for bikes.

Kehr also says that a map of good bike routes from the Spokane Regional Transit Council can be found at srtc.org/maps. html.  jaket@inlander.com

HOW TO FLOAT THE SPOKANE RIVER The Spokane River is one of few rivers in the U.S. that offers leisurely floating for those wanting to take advantage of hot summer evenings. Spokane River Float Trip allows anybody over the age of 5 to join ROW Adventures to float on the lower Spokane for a 5-mile trip with class I and II rapids. There are three launch times available: 9:30 am and 2 and 4:30 pm, each lasting about three-and-a-half hours.

The price is $69 for adults, $62 for youths. To book a float, email ac@rowadventures.com or call (208) 770-2517.

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Full Sails

How one woman stumbled into a sailing hobby and never turned back

BY JEN FORSYTH

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t was the fall of 2011 and I was tending bar at Trinity at City Beach in Sandpoint, where my daily view consisted of sailboats and powerboats entering and leaving the marina with the vastness of Lake Pend Oreille and the Cabinet Mountains in the background.

Many of my regular customers would come in after they were done sailing, whether after Thursday night “beer can” racing, one of the club’s Saturday social sails or the more intense J24 fleet racing, held every other Sunday morning throughout the summer. They all seemed excitable as they discussed the day’s racing. I knew many of the faces and names from skiing at Schweitzer and living in Sandpoint for more than a decade. There was always encouragement from them to get involved.

One mid-September Friday evening, a friendly gentleman named Matt asked me to join him for a Sunday afternoon sailing adventure before my evening bar shift.

Matt quickly got the boat ready, and we were soon off the dock, joining the view that I had seen so many days that summer. As he was showing me the uses for the different lines and equipment, the sky became dark and the weather was changing, fast and furious. Since I had no idea what to do, every time he tried explaining to me what the different halyards, lines and winches did, all I heard was the voice of Charlie Brown’s teacher: “wah wah wah wah.”

It was all a foreign language to me.

As Matt hurried around the boat’s deck, getting sails and docking lines ready for the incoming storm and the rapid return to the marina and slip, he had me guiding the boat, expediting the process. As we neared the jetty that protects the marina, he anxiously asked me, “Are you OK?” “Yes. Are you?” I replied. I was immediately

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Five years later, I’m engulfed in sailboat racing on Lake Pend Oreille, racing the south end out of Bayview on Wednesday evenings and the north end out of the Windbag Marina in Sandpoint on Thursdays in addition to Sandpoint Sailing Association club races, Lake Pend Oreille Yacht Club weekend races and the J24 fleet races.

I have traveled with local boats to away regattas on Whidbey Island and on Flathead Lake in Montana. I’ve jumped aboard with like-minded strangers for long-distance racing on Puget Sound and the coveted Tuesday night J24 fleet racing on Lake Washington. All of these opportunities arose by simply showing up on the dock, getting to know the boats that like to travel and are looking for crew.

I can’t imagine my summers without the camaraderie of those après-race beers and smack-talking with the other boats on the deck of our self-proclaimed yacht club — my old bar, Trinity at City Beach.

Most boat owners are looking for someone who is willing and excited to learn. Most people think that sailing and sailboat racing is expensive. There is some truth to that, and that expense is one the owner accepts in exchange for the enjoyment of sailing and the thrill of competition. I bought into a J24 four years ago, and quickly realized that the cheapest thing on the boat is beer. So if you’re looking to contribute, bring a sixer. Or more.

Little did I realize five years ago that throughout the infinite number of smiles, hundreds of bruises, several regattas throughout the Pacific Northwest and many evening races watching the sun go down, how drastically my life would change by just answering “Yes” when someone asked me to go sailing on a Sunday. n

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n rock climbing, the basics are vital. Between the adrenaline, the landscape and the community, it’s an incredible sport. But climbing in any form is dangerous, because there are so many opportunities for something to go wrong. Luckily, bold climbers spent decades figuring out ways to safely reach the top of some of the most inspiring and formidable walls, making the experience accessible to the masses.

Historically, people learned to rock-climb outside with a mentor. As climbing gyms became more prevalent in the U.S., they’ve stepped in as a testing ground for a lot of beginners. At Wild Walls in downtown Spokane (202 W. Second; wildwalls.com), new climbers have a chance to learn from an instructor in a controlled environment, says Dane Harrod, an employee and avid sport climber.

“We do everything we can to make it foolproof,”

Harrod says. “I think a good way to get your foundation is in the indoor scene.”

The Wild Walls Vertical Introduction class teaches basic knots, commands, and belaying technique. They’ll get you started top-roping, which is what it’s called when the rope is set through an anchor at the top of the climb — a style that can be replicated outside. This is where you learn the most fundamental lesson of climbing: Trust your gear. It’s designed to protect something much, much bigger and heavier than you.

Be warned — if you do it right, top-roping at a climbing gym will not be enough. Bouldering, sport climbing and traditional climbing are the big three styles that provide endless entertainment and challenge. You can do the first two in a climbing gym — the third is outdoors-only. The Northwest is home to world-class climbing in each category: • Bouldering: Climbing short “problems” without a rope. Requires pads.

• Sport: The climber clips the rope to carabiners hanging from bolts in the wall, setting protection as they climb.

• Traditional: Using an array of expensive hardware, the climber places protection in natural cracks in the rock as they climb.

Every new style of climbing requires more instruction. If you can afford it, getting lessons from experts at the gym is a good way to learn. Instructors at Wild Walls can teach you how to sport-climb and set anchors, among other required skills. When you take your newfound zeal outside, you’ll learn the second fundamental lesson of climbing: Stay humble.

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FREE THE COST OF CLIMBING Rock climbing shoes: Available for rent at a climbing gym or $50-$60 for a basic pair Harness: Available for rent or $55-$60 Chalk & chalk bag for sweaty hands: About $20 Helmet for climbing outside: $55-$60 Rope: Varies widely, but expect to pay $150 or more To figure out where to climb in Spokane, FalconGuides’ book is adequate, though newly developed areas aren’t included.

Mountainproject.com is a useful online encyclopedia of climbing routes that includes the region. But nothing beats getting to know the local climbing community, which tends to work out at Wild Walls, and picking their brains for the most beginnerfriendly places. A day pass at the gym will set you back about the same as a night out with friends — maybe less. 

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n this issue, you’ve likely seen activities you wouldn’t mind trying, and we did our best to help you figure out how to do that. But if you’re still itching to get outside and need an even easier entry into this bright new world, you might want to try the Spokatopia Outdoor Adventure Festival.

The event on Saturday, July 9, is essentially one-stop shopping for both the outdoors-curious, as well as those who already have a separate drawer for the various spandex getups and multiple racks on their Subaru. Taking place at Camp Sekani Park on the north bank of the Spokane River, Spokatopia features opportunities to try rock climbing, stand-up paddleboarding, kayaking, disc golf and other activities, while also taking the newest and coolest mountain bikes from the region’s local shops on test rides. And if you want to buy a bike, there are plenty of deals to be found.

It’s free to enter the festival, which also features a beer garden pouring local and regional beers. Some the activities require fees, but even then, the cost is range is an affordable $8 to $20, depending on what you’re looking to get into.

If you want to start your Spokatopia day with a challenge, there’s the Up Chuck Challenge trail run, a 5-kilometer ascension of Beacon Hill at 9:30 am. Those 5 kilometers are just uphill — you’ve got another 5 untimed kilometers an your way back down.

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ARTS

About Face Artist Annie Libertini has established herself as an adept leatherworker through her highly detailed masks

BY CHEY SCOTT

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Maskmaker Annie Libertini has been contracted to make costume pieces for several major TV shows. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

nnie Libertini makes faces for other people to hide behind.

Most of her whimsical visages are of a folklore or nature motif, allowing the wearer to transform into a cunning fox, a bewitching butterfly or a foreboding crow. Made from sculpted leather that’s then painted and embellished, Libertini estimates she’s sold more than 500 of the handmade pieces, many to customers around the world. Most of them discovered her work online.

“If you Google ‘owl mask’ one of my pieces comes up right away,” the Spokane artist says from her living room, a space filled with her creations.

Several leather masks stare blindly from the walls, while a larger collection of the eye-less semblances keep watch over the room from a glass-doored cabinet.

“At least half of what I make are owls,” Libertini continues. “Those are my favorite. I love how they look, and I love doing the feathers from leather. Owls also make for really good masks because the proportions of their faces go well on ours.”

Libertini began working with leather as a focal medium more than a decade ago, and hasn’t looked back.

While mask-making dominates the expression of her selftaught skills, the artist also experiments with new ways of sculpting the supple, lightweight material. For a leatherworking competition, she made a lifelike falcon that mimics a taxidermy-mounted bird. Perched atop a high shelf, most observers wouldn’t recognize the difference.

Considering the wide range of sculptable media available to contemporary artists who create three-dimensional bodies of work, leather may seem like an unlikely choice. Yet for making masks, its natural properties — it’s durable, lightweight, forgiving and fairly inexpensive, compared to other materials — are ideal. Libertini buys all-natural, vegetable-tanned leather in large quantities.

Since individual masks are made using a relatively small amount, this helps keep overhead costs down.

The process to bend, fold and coax the leather into shapes and ripples is surprisingly simple. When the otherwise stiff and flat material is wet, it can be bent and stretched into dimensional shapes. The raw leather Libertini uses is quite unlike the soft, chemically treated leather ...continued on next page

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Annie Libertini discovered the art of leather maskmaking while in college; she’s sold more than 500 masks since.

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“ABOUT FACE,” CONTINUED... most of us are used to seeing in shoes, bags and jackets.

Wetting a scrap in the bathroom sink, she demonstrates how easy it is to bend the leather into curves, and how it holds the shape when she lets go.

With a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Libertini’s finishing work on the details of each mask is exquisite. She colors the pieces using a combination of water-based leather dyes and acrylic paints, shading and etching the already natural surface to bring each face to life.

Working on the masks from her home has, over the years, become a full-time job for the artist. Orders definitely come in waves. The months leading up to Halloween, unsurprisingly, are her busiest of the year. Most pieces — priced between $90 and $130 — are sold through her online Etsy storefront, LibertiniArts, including custom orders, which can be higher in price depending on the level of detail.

“Even though [the masks] aren’t cheap, people feel like they can make that investment on a Halloween mask and the rest of the year they can have it on display,” Libertini explains. “Some people have bought them solely to hang up as art.”

Outside of this wide-reaching online presence, she’s

been a featured vendor at an annual, juried Halloween expo in Southern California and a similar event in Seattle.

This year, Libertini was a featured guest at Spokane’s Lilac City Comicon.

Lately, she’s landed some major orders and contract work from popular television shows, including the locally filmed Syfy series Z Nation. Last summer, Libertini spent most of her time customizing props and costumes for the show, work that included both creating masks and painting leather jackets and other costume pieces.

Just weeks ago, she shipped off an order of 15 identical owl masks for the FOX series Gotham. Back in 2013, a representative for ABC’s ongoing fairytale drama Once Upon a Time bought some ready-made animal masks from her Etsy shop.

Hundreds of masks in, Libertini admits that she doesn’t prefer to wear her own work. Even with one’s face obscured, a mask brings attention and curiosity from others, which she prefers to avoid.

She does, however, treasure one of her more intricate

creations. Naturally, it’s an owl; a piece with a long fabric hood that drapes down her back and shoulders, with dark sunglass lenses to both represent the animal’s eyes and

“At least half of what I make are owls. Owls also make for really good masks because the proportions of their faces go well on ours.” obscure her own.

Libertini’s more outgoing husband Mike is a much better sport when it comes to wearing and showing off her creations.

“I make Mike wear them more,” she laughs. “He’s shameless and will wear anything.” n cheys@inlander.com See more of Annie Libertini’s work at annielibertini. com, or on Facebook and Etsy, under Libertini Arts.

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FIRST FRIDAY BARTOSZ BEDA P

The work of Polish painter Bartosz Beda is coming to the Marmot Art Space.

olish artist Bartosz Beda is coming to Spokane, carrying with him some hype for his first solo show in the U.S. at Marmot Art Space in Kendall Yards. The exhibition opens on First Friday and will last throughout July, with pieces reflecting on social anxieties and lessons of history.

Audiences can capture his style by taking in new paintings for which Beda applies a method called impasto. This is a technique where the paint is laid thickly enough on the canvas to allow brushing and knife-like strokes, providing texture along with the appearance that the paint is coming out of the canvas.

Beda’s work often explores the relation between daily life and human nature, and he describes humanity as a chocolate cake. Beneath the icing there lies more puzzling mixtures of fears and social pathology.

Marmot Art Space curator Marshall Peterson says that there’s a new aspect to this particular exhibition that he’s never experienced with any other visiting artist. Collectors are purchasing Beda’s pieces, with the intent of selling them for three to eight times their original price in the years to come. In the past three years, his works have increased in value by 500 percent.

The opening reception takes place Friday, July 1, from 5 to 8 pm at Marmot Art Space (1206 W. Summit Pkwy.)

— KRISTI LUCCHETTA

FIRST FRIDAY: JULY 1 ARTIST RECEPTIONS ON FRIDAY FROM 5-8 PM AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE, 402 W. Main, “3 Minute Mic” feat. Chris Cook, Adriana Janovich BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad, Artwork by Angeline Dwyer BELLWETHER BREWING CO., 2019 N. Monroe, Mixed media by Daniel Scully BON BON, 926 W. Garland, Art by Barry Anderson BOUTIQUE BLEU, 1184 W. Summit Pkwy., Art by Jeannine Marx Fruci CELLO, 415 W. Main, Suite 101, Music by cellist Louise Butler CORE PILATES AND WELLNESS, 1230 W. Summit Pkwy., Chinese traditional fine arts by Ling Bower CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy., Acrylics by E.L. Steward and music by Nick Grow IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second, Mixed media by Dean Davis KRESS GALLERY / RIVER PARK SQUARE, 808 W. Main, third floor, Paintings by

Andrea Bruse MARMOT ART SPACE, 1206 W. Summit Pkwy., Paintings by Bartosz Beda MCCARTHY ART CO., 120 N. Wall, Suites 201 & 203, Abstract paintings by Dustin Austin NECTAR TASTING ROOM, 120 N. Stevens, Art and music by Tom Norton ORLISON BREWING CO., 1017 W. First, Art

by Jennifer Quick PATIT CREEK CELLARS, 822 W. Sprague, Photography by JR McCurdie; music

by Christy Lee and Sara Jean POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington, Multimedia art by Daris Judd and jewelry by Fran Summerday RIVER PARK SQUARE, 808 W. Main, first floor, Acrylic paintings by Richy Sharshan; music by Wyatt Wood SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main, “Woman Walking” by Margo Casstevens and new paintings by Aryn Fields SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, 117 N. How-

ard, Paintings by Audreana Camm; music by Deschamp SPOKANE HEALING ARTS, 430 W. Second, Sumi-e paintings by Altari Sunra Peterson SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 906 W. Main, Artwork by Michaelanne Foster and Chris Bolduc; music by B Radicals TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE, 912 W. Sprague, Art by James Wynd TRACKSIDE STUDIO CERAMIC GALLERY, 115 S. Adams, Ceramic art by local artists URBANNA, 104 S. Division, Abstract paintings by Ed Gilmore V DU V WINERY, 421 W. Riverside, Oil paintings by Tom Wakeley; music by Crushpad WILLIAM GRANT GALLERY, 1188 W. Summit Pkwy., “Just the Bridge Show” group show n

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

BY TED S. McGREGOR JR.

MUSIC Somebody asked me about the first album I ever owned. I instantly remembered listening to my little AM radio up in my room and hearing “Telephone Line” by Electric Light Orchestra. Mesmerized by the starship art by the legendary John Kosh, 1976’s A New World Record became my first love — “Tightrope,” “Livin’ Thing,” “Shangri-La.” It holds up. And Jeff Lynne, the genius behind ELO, is still at it, with a new record, ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE, out this past November. All these years later, he’s still got it. If you really want to bask in it all, check him out in beautiful Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl, Sept.

9-11, backed by a full orchestra.

DVD Speaking of Hollywood, one of the great satires of the fantasy-industrial complex is out in a new Criterion Collection edition. Robert Altman’s cameo-laden 1992 pseudo-thriller THE PLAYER gets the deluxe treatment, with tons of extras. Known for its epic opening tracking shot around the back lot, it features a boyish Tim Robbins as the soulless exec dressed in high ’90s style. A rejected screenwriter starts stalking him, and you’re into a twisty story with so many old Hollywood references, it takes a special feature to make sense of it all.

BOOK Speaking of listening to the radio in your room at night, that’s exactly what Bill Walton used to do, according BACK FROM THE DEAD. Instead of listening to ELO, he was tuning in to the Los Angeles Lakers, up the coast from his home in San Diego. It all worked out, as Walton became one of the great centers of all time. (Bonus: His son Luke will coach the Lakers next season.) Bill Walton is now flourishing as a Zen master of basketball announcing and a Grateful Dead-lyric quoting machine. You’ll also get a great insight into his coach at UCLA, John Wooden. Walton was punished like Job, injured for most of his career and beyond. Despite all that pain, his book features such a refreshing, upbeat attitude, you’ll love him even more. n

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“Monkeys as Judges of Art” by Gabriel von Max.

Animal Instincts The MAC brings together art and the wild

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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here’s something missing from the home of John MoredoBurich, the interim CEO of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. It’s his stuffed caribou, affectionately named Bou, who made the move with him from North Carolina, taking shipping priority over Moredo-Burich’s car, which wasn’t lucky enough to come West.

To see the caribou now, he has to go to work, where Bou is one of the more than 300 animal specimens on display at the MAC’s new show, Fangs, Fur and Feathers: The Art of Animals. It began as a collection of artwork featuring animal subjects, but soon MoredoBurich realized he could add some more three-dimensional living beings — or formerly living — to the exhibit. The idea was to show how animals have long been a subject of artistic wonder.

“Animals have been included in representation art all the way back to the caves of Lascaux, [France],” says Moredo-Burich. “I’m not quite sure why the propensity of bucolic pieces occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries, but I’m guessing it was a display of wealth of what people owned, and what they would have owned was a large quantity of animals that would produce meat and milk.”

After realizing that the MAC’s own natural history collection had thinned over the decades and now features mostly just stuffed birds, Moredo-Burich reached out to the community and was surprised by the response. As word spread, the museum received a vast array of samples from all over the region — including Bou, of

course — and a few from beyond. Now, they have everything from butterflies to a bear and large cats.

The exhibit, which takes up two of the museum’s galleries, is laid out in a fashion inspired by Moredo-Burich’s fascination with the European castles he’d recently been studying in a documentary series. In those castles, animals peer down from high on the walls, complementing the two-dimensional fine art down closer to eye level.

“I want that opulent feeling of magnificence between the artwork and the animals themselves,” he says.

The artwork itself, much of it from the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania, is not to be overlooked. There are pieces from Francisco José de Goya, Peter Moran and John James Audubon.

There’s even a drawing from a Koran that dates to the 13th century.

On the natural history side, Muredo-Burich wants to expose the public to taxidermy, an art form that may not be around much longer due to the chemicals used in the process, among other reasons.

“Taxidermy is a very high-end art form. It’s a changing art form, too. I wanted to include it, because for the general public it might be the last time they see something like this in a museum,” he says.

Muredo-Burich also hopes that visitors get a look at species they probably would only see at one of the nation’s bigger zoos. Along the way, hopefully people will come to value the creatures, some of which are heading toward extinction or are already gone from the Earth.

“There’s already a good sum of them right now that are in trouble,” he says. “I kind of think of it as a way of making people aware of the diversity of life that you need to have respect for.” n Fangs, Fur and Feathers: The Animals of Art • July 2 through Sept. 4 • Special preview night Fri, July 1, from 5:30 to 8 pm for museum members and STCU members • Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org

Pearls of Joy Boba tea is fun to drink in a variety of ways

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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e get excited when big-city food trends make their way to our neck of the woods, and boba tea is no exception. Also known as bubble or pearl tea for the edible “balls” of tapioca or similar jellied substance that line the bottom of a typical serving, boba was invented in the late ’80s when a Taiwanese teahouse — stories vary as to which one — created the beverage.

It’s also been around the Inland Northwest for several years, sometimes on drink menus at restaurants serving food from Pacific Rim countries. Spokane’s Vien Dong, for example, serves it as a smoothie of traditional red bean or taro, as well as fruit and coconut ($3.75), while Sandpoint’s Kyoko Sushi gives you the option ...continued on next page

FOOD | IN SEARCH OF “PEARLS OF JOY,” CONTINUED... of dairy or coconut milk in their green tea-based boba with fruit flavoring — mango, huckleberry, honeydew — over ice or blended ($5).

There are endless variations on the tea base used — black tea and jasmine, which is green tea, are most common — types of milk (half-and-half, coconut, dairy, even nondairy creamer) and how the drink is served, such as over ice or blended. Inside NorthTown Mall, for example, Boba Bubble serves blended shakes ($3.68-$4.45), a slushy-like tea ($3.68), and “milk tea,” which is flavored jasmine or black tea ($3.68).

Regardless of the variation, flavored syrups add color and sweetness. Fruits are typical — melons, berries, tropical flavors like pineapple or lychee — although Awaken Coffee in Coeur d’Alene says that lavender and vanilla are popular in their tea ($3.95$4.95)

“Traditional boba bubbles are made from tapioca, a subsistence foodstuff that comes from the cassava or yucca root.”

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Then there are the bubbles themselves, which range in size, shape, texture, color and content. Traditional boba bubbles are made from tapioca, a humble subsistence foodstuff that comes from the cassava or yucca root. Formed into shapes — large balls requiring an equally large straw with which to suck them up — the tapioca takes on a gummy-bear-like consistency when added to liquid.

“I like the centers to be more solid than the outside, so there’s more chew,” says Shiree Cosgrove of Coeur d’Alene, who considers herself a boba connoisseur. She buys the boba (try Best Asian Market or Lieng Phane Oriental Market, both on East Sprague), boils and drains them, adding maple syrup for sweetness.

Her go-to tea types are masala chai or matcha (green tea ground into a strongly-tasting powder) with cream.

Cosgrove also likes the boba at Gaiwan Tea House, too, which serves four types at their Coeur d’Alene location, as well R E S TA U R A N T as at the Kootenai Farmers FINDER Market. Using pearls from TaiLooking for a new place to wan and either milk or cream, eat? Search the region’s Gaiwan offers jasmine or black most comprehensive bar tea ($4/$4.50), matcha ($4.75and restaurant guide at $5.25), or masala chai ($4.75).

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An increasingly popular boba is made of fruit juice, which — through molecular gastronomy — forms a sphere with a thin skin that bursts as you bite into it. Go Froyo-South Hill calls them “juicy poppers,” and offers them as an option in their green, black, lemon and green pomegranate tea drinks ($3.75-$4.50).

Amidst the ping and clang of video games at Did’s Pizza & Froyo Hawaiian Shack and Arcade, you can have your boba drink iced, blended with yogurt, as a slushy or traditional milk tea with green or black tea base, or with approximately three dozen flavor options like rock n’ roll (blueberry, blue raspberry, grape), butterscotch and pink cotton candy ($2.75-$4). The top of each beverage is sealed in plastic, through which you punch your oversized straw with a satisfying pop to get at the bubbles.

Then it’s a question of technique, a litmus test of personality types, perhaps. The optimist drinks the liquid first, then scoops the balls out, hoping that they’re not too mushy. The impulsive peels away the top and digs around impatiently for the balls.

The peacemaker breaks up the balls with the straw, mixing them equally and gently into the liquid so they’re easier to drink.

Whatever your style — or flavor or tea or serving preference — boba tea offers plenty to chew on. 

FOOD | CIDER

One Tree Hard Cider’s Neal Hennessy with several varieties of his company’s award-winning cider. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Blossoming Business One Tree Hard Cider unveils a new-and-improved tasting room

BY LAURA REGESTER

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ead to One Tree Hard Cider’s tasting room in Spokane Valley, and you may initially think you’ve gone off course. But tucked away in a nondescript commercial center is a gem of a cider house with a fresh, relaxed vibe and a steady stream of loyal customers.

Co-owners Grant Barnes and Neal Hennessy’s grand reopening of their upgraded tasting room on June 3 drew a standing-room-only crowd, despite the fact that they’ve more than doubled their seating capacity. They expanded into what was previously used only as a production area, adding more seating, including an open-air bar.

“Before, you could have a little sample and then take your growler home,” Hennessy says. “But now you can

stay, have a flight, try our stuff, try other people’s stuff.

You can still take a growler home, but you can also hang out.”

They’re offering flights, pints, growlers and bottles, including a selection of other local ciders on tap, and eventually they plan to have a few local beers. To sweeten the deal, neighboring Brain Freeze Creamery’s food truck sets up shop with ice cream and hot dogs once or twice a week.

Known for their ciders with unusual and bold flavors, Barnes and Hennessy use a proprietary blend of Washington apples. Then they add their signature flavors, like basil, ginger or cranberries, which are sourced locally whenever possible.

“We want to be interesting — that’s always been our thing,” Hennessy says. “It’s easy to do apple. Let’s take a basic apple and turn it on its head if we can.”

Their most popular flavors are a refreshing lemon basil during warmer months, and a sweet and spicy caramel cinnamon in the winter. They’ve also introduced a weekly Summer Series, which has seen blood orange and mango habanero flavors so far.

Hennessy says that in terms of distribution, One Tree is the Spokane area’s biggest cidery. Their products can be found in bars and stores throughout Washington, North Idaho, western Montana, and along the I-5 corridor. Boise and Vancouver are next on the distribution list.

The improved tasting room isn’t the only expansion they have in the works — Barnes and Hennessy plan to open a tasting room in Kendall Yards, as tenants of a new building that is being planned to fill the space between Nectar Wine and Beer and Spa Paradiso. They’re hoping for a grand opening in early summer 2017. n One Tree Hard Cider Tasting Room • 9514 E. Montgomery Ave. #25, Spokane Valley • Thu-Fri, 3-7 pm; Sat, noon-7 pm • 315-9856 • onetreehardcider.com

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AZAR’S RESTAURANT 2501 N. Monroe | 326-7171 Don’t be fooled by the exterior, which looks like a former hamburger joint. Azar’s serves up tasty Greek and Middle Eastern fare and offers a free belly-dancing show on Friday nights. The spot features tender kebabs and savory dips from family recipes. If you must choose, try the lentil soup, the gyro melt, and of course hummus.

THE BLACK CYPRESS 215 E. Main St. | Pullman 509-334-5800 This restaurant features dishes from all countries that line the Mediterranean. Choose from options including the Cypriot cheese sandwiches, the classic Italian carbonara or the traditional Turkish shish kabob.

Also check out their wine list for a selection of reds and whites from near and far.

MARRAKESH 1227 N. Division | 328-9733 Dining here is as much about the experience as it is about the food.

Also, it’s one of the only places in the region that serves authentic Moroc-

can food. Allow at least an hour for a leisurely meal if you go for the multiple-course dinner, but take your time, because you’ll want to relax with the floral-scented herbal tea.

Be prepared to roll up your sleeves; Moroccan food is traditionally eaten with one’s hands.

OLYMPIA RESTAURANT 301 E. Lakeside Ave. | Coeur d’Alene 208-666-9495 This small, family-run Greek restaurant sits on a less-traveled corner of downtown Coeur d’Alene, but everything is made to order, and the flavors sparkle with Mediterranean freshness. The casual but classy spot features a menu of Greek favorites, including salads, sandwiches and, of course, their beloved baklava.

RENATUS MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO 10411 N. Newport Hwy. | 368-9871 Located in north Spokane, this spot, which specializes in Greek cuisine but also dabbles with other influences, was once the home of Opa, a popular pizza spot. Now, Renatus serves a creative lunch and dinner menu that still includes pizza. But there’s more than that. You’ll also find pasta, seafood, gyros, salads and more. They also have a full bar to go with your meal.

Just a sampling of the fare at Azar’s. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO WHITE HOUSE GRILL 712 N. Spokane St. | Post Falls 208-777-9672 The world “garlic” appears no less than 20 times on the White House Grill’s medium-sized menu, sometimes even multiple times in the same sentence. That about sums up this Mediterranean restaurant’s

m.o. — they’re open about their love for garlic. The menu is expansive, ranging from small plates and salads to kebabs, sandwiches and other entrées influenced by different areas of the Mediterranean. Stop in next door at the Oval Office Bistro & Martini Bar for an after-dinner (or happy hour) drink. 

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Your Friday night plans are all over the map.

Sure, there are dozens of participating venues for every First Friday. But don’t think of them as individual destinations. Explore First Friday by unique neighborhoods and districts, and relax on the whole GPS mapping thing.

After all, great art shouldn’t be rushed. Pick up a detailed flyer at the visitors kiosk at River Park Square or find all participating venues at downtownspokane.org.

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Opening and Closing

CHEERS TO FIRST FRIDAY!

New arrivals to (and recent departures from) the region’s restaurant scene OPENING

• There’s a new pizza place near Gonzaga that caters to both the college crowd and the neighborhood. Slice opened at 829 E. Boone Ave. in the building that also houses Sushi Sakai and a Bruchi’s, among other businesses, and borders the GU campus. The spot offers pizza by the slice or whole pie (pair them with a soda or a beer to get a deal), which can be enjoyed on their spacious patio.

• The Steel Barrel, a bar that serves up beer from Little Spokane Brewing Company and Young Buck Brewing, is now open at 154 S. Madison St. on the west side of downtown Spokane. Housed at the location is Zona Blanca, a ceviche eatery from celebrity chef Chad White. Check back next week for a profile of the collaborative spot.

• After 24 years in River Park Square, Rock City Grill is moving up to the upper South Hill and plans to open on July 10 at the spot formerly occupied

by Famous Ed’s.

CLOSING

• Knockaderry, also known as “The Knock,” near the Spokane County Courthouse has closed. The Irish-themed bar opened in 2014. There’s been no indication what will occupy the spot, which was once the location of a popular after-work bar called Sidebar.

• Out on Priest Lake, the restaurant portion of Cavanaugh’s is closed indefinitely, but the resort is still renting out its condos and cabins. n

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Kid Stuff

Steven Spielberg’s gifts shouldn’t be taken for granted in The BFG

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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t is probably a cliché at this point to note that Steven Spielberg has become a victim of his own success, but… well, there it is. We know that he’s capable of masterpieces, whether he’s venturing into genre fare or exploring the Big Events of history. We’ve seen what it looks like when he’s applying his incomparable skills behind the camera to fascinating ideas, or profound emotion. And anything less is held against that standard.

That’s particularly true when he’s taking on kid-oriented fare, which feels almost tragic in a world where The Angry Birds Movie is somehow given a pass as anything more than what a bird leaves on your windshield. His The Adventures of Tintin was brushed off as a busy diversion — and I raise my hand as guilty — even as it crafted breathtaking action set pieces filled with more pure cinema than you’ll find in 90 percent of family-friendly movies. The BFG may never be counted among Spielberg’s greatest triumphs, but it shouldn’t have to be, not when its own distinctive pleasures are just sitting there in front of you.

Working from a script by the late Melissa Mathison (E.T.), Spielberg sticks close to Roald Dahl’s story of an orphaned British girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) who, up late one evening, spots from the orphanage window

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a huge figure prowling through the streets. He turns out to be a giant who calls himself the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) — or BFG, in Sophie’s shorthand — and he whisks her away to his home in Giant Country. But while the vegetarian BFG means her no harm — and indeed, does his best to protect her — the other, flesh-eating giants like Fleshlumpeater THE BFG (Jemaine Clement) are Rated PG another, more dangerous Directed by Steven Spielberg matter entirely.

Starring Mark Rylance, Ruby There’s something Barnhill, Jemaine Clement uniquely mean-spirited about picking on a child performance, yet it’s hard to ignore that one of the main problems with The BFG is Barnhill. While Spielberg has been phenomenal throughout his career at casting and directing young actors, Barnhill brings a kind of generic, precocious pluckiness that may work better on the page than it does on a big screen, in a movie that seems to need a core of loneliness that sparks her friendship. Considering how much of the story she’s required to carry, her work feels like something the film has to overcome, rather than something that adds to its charms.

Its charms, however, are ample. The BFG’s home is remarkable all on its own, glistening with the bottled dreams the BFG catches to distribute, and glowing with the cozy warmth of his fire. Spielberg builds wonderful visual jokes into the BFG’s attempts to remain hidden from human view, and lends a magical quality to the existence of Giant Country as a world upside-down from our own. And when it’s time for the story to sneak in its action bits — whether it’s Sophie attempting to avoid the mean giants seeking her out in the BFG’s home, or the climactic grand battle — there’s no one you’d rather have choreographing those near misses than Steven Spielberg.

Mostly, however, The BFG has Mark Rylance, whose performance here may be just as impressive in a different way as his Oscar-winning work last year in Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. The technical achievement of this motioncapture creation is certainly astonishing, and Mathison’s script gives him plenty of Dahl’s distinctive malapropisms to enliven his dialogue. But it’s Rylance who gives the BFG soul, and a gentle spirit that makes his connection with Sophie feel completely genuine.

It seems inevitable that The BFG will get scolded for its inclusion of an elaborate lunch with the Queen of England (Penelope Wilton) in which the BFG’s home-brewed beverage causes an outbreak of powerful flatulence.

Leaving aside that the sequence is taken directly from the source materia — Dahl’s wicked sense of humor could actually stand to be more present, to cut the fantastical sweetness — the entire bit is fairly irresistible. If you’re going to go for a fart joke to amuse the kiddies, then by heavens, you should go for a fart joke. That’s the kind of instinct you should expect from one of the greatest filmmakers in history. Even when he’s just telling a kid story, perhaps we should stop taking him for granted. n

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Working from a script by the late Melissa Mathison (E.T.), Steven Spielberg sticks close to Roald Dahl’s story of an orphaned British girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) who, up late one evening, spots from the orphanage window a huge figure prowling through the streets. He turns out to be a giant who calls himself the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) and he whisks her away to his home in Giant Country.

(SR) Rated PG

DARK HORSE

This documentary chronicles a group of blue-collar Welsh friends who resolve to take on the giants of the horse-racing industry by breeding their own racehorse, named Dream Alliance. The horse goes on to become an unlikely contender at a myriad of competitive events, forming the basis of this inspirational film. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

The newest big-screen incarnation of the legendary jungle-dwelling, apebefriending hero is a new spin on the character. In the film, Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) returns to his home in Africa after years of living in London with his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie).

Tarzan finds himself a pawn in the scheme of the devious Captain Léon Rom, played by Christoph Waltz, who’s sure to chew up the screen in a signature, villainous role. (IH) Rated PG-13

LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

Hollywood’s latest Jane Austen novel adaptation sees acclaimed director Whit Stillman tackle the story of savvy, widowed British aristocrat Lady Susan (Kate Beckinsale). Staying with her inlaws while she waits for rumors of her

promiscuity to blow over, Susan sets about trying to secure comfortable futures for herself and her daughter. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny, Stephen Fry, and Xavier Samuel. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG

PURGE ELECTION YEAR

The annual purge is back and the one goal is survival. The third movie in the series takes place during an election where Frank Grillo’s character is head of security for a U.S. Senator front-runner portrayed by Elizabeth Mitchell. As certain candidates campaign against the purge, hostility and vengeance arises from the government come Purge night. (KL) Rated R

SWISS ARMY MAN

Having become known around the internet as the “farting corpse movie,” you’d be forgiven for having written Swiss Army Man off as disposable summer fare. However, this fantastical dramedy shouldn’t go unconsidered just because of a little absurdity — it’s been hailed for featuring strong performances from leading men Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe, and seems, according to many, to fall into the everelusive “so crazy it works” category.

(IH) Rated R

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR

An English couple played by Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris happen to get mixed up with both the Russian mafia and a skeptical British Secret Service. Our Kind of Traitor follows the couple as they agree to deliver classified information to the Secret Service for a Russian mafia member and informant. After they are captured in a whirlwind of events, the couple realizes that they can no longer trust anyone. (KL) Rated R

NOW PLAYING ANGRY BIRDS

On a magical island exists a bunch of birds who can’t fly but are totally happy with this and everything else in their life — including their belief that there is no world outside of the island.

Any birds who aren’t happy, i.e., “angry,” are outcasts. But when green pigs invade the island, the angry guys come in handy. (MB) Rated PG

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Meanwhile in the Marvel Universe… a disagreement between superheroes — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) take opposing sides when the United Nations demands authority over superhero actions. Aside from a lackluster score and unnecessary visual distractions,

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FILM | SHORTS Civil War makes for a magnificent fireworks display to kick off the first week of summer blockbuster season at the multiplex. (PC) Rated PG-13

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

Kevin Hart plays your typical, run-ofthe-mill accountant (or at least the movie stereotype of accountants, who in real life might be very exciting people) who is reunited with an old friend played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It just so happens that the Rock is a CIA agent and takes the boring accountant on a thrill-ride doing spy stuff. (MB) Rated PG-13

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The first installment of this franchise scared the living bejeezus out of a lot of people with its stylistic and campfree approach to the tried-and-true haunted house story. This time, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren, but this now they’re in London where a single mother and her kids are suffering from a house riddled with seriously messed-up monsters and ghosts. (MB) Rated R

FINDING DORY

Set one year after the events of Finding Nemo, Dory is still settled in with Marlin and Nemo, but a flash of memory includes a clue to her parents’ possible whereabouts. Setting out across the ocean with Marlin and Nemo (Hayden Rolence), Dory eventually reaches a California aquarium for an adventure that may reunite her with her family.

(SR) Rated PG

FREE STATE OF JONES

In the 1860s, not all Southerners were pro-slavery, this new Civil War film wants to remind us. Here, we see the story of poor Mississippi farmer Newton Knight (a controversial historical figure played by Matthew McConaughey) who led a group of rebels made up of farmers and slaves against the Confederate army — which led to his home of Jones County seceding from the Confederacy and becoming the Free State of Jones.

(LJ) Rated R

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

It’s been two decades since Independence Day was released, and with the Fourth of July approaching, it’s coming back. Director Roland Emmerich is bringing the aliens back to invade planet Earth and take out the human race in the long-awaited sequel that somehow doesn’t feature Will Smith. This time the human race unites to fight off the invasion with enhanced technologies they obtained after the earlier attack.

(KL) Rated PG-13

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We are dropped into a pristine, bleak dystopia, one in which being single is outlawed. We meet David (Colin Farrell, appropriately sad-sack), whose wife has left him for another. In Lanthimos’ world, single people are shipped off to a hotel resort, where they have 45 days to find a compatible partner. If they fail, they will be turned into the animal of their choice. (JK) Rated R

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Last time around, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne were new parents who moved into a new house, expecting marital bliss and all that. But then a fraternity moved in next door and were loud as hell and, led by Zac Efron and his abs, tried to kill Rogen with stolen airbags.

This time a sorority has moved into the same house! And it’s a really crazy sorority, so Zac Efron has to come back and show them his abs. (MB) Rated R In the dynamic psychological flick, director Nicolas Winding Refn portrays the curious events centering around aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) and her move to Los Angeles. She quickly finds out how treacherous her beauty and youth are in her new atmosphere.

Soon, Jesse finds herself in great danger among murderous and revengeful women who want the beauty she possesses. (SL) Rated R

NOW YOU SEE ME 2

Enough people saw the FBI-mystifying magical antics of the Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan and Dave Franco) in the first movie to warrant a globe-trotting sequel, in which the quick-witted illusionists are blackmailed by a nasty tech magnate (Daniel Radcliffe) into stealing an all-powerful chip capable of controlling every computer in the world. Sounds like it was inspired by the Windows 10 rollout. Now You See Me 2 also stars powerhouses Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Mark Ruffalo in the very definition of a summer popcorn flick. (DN) Rated PG-13

POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING

The Lonely Island gang of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone take their digital-short-honed knack for pop-culture hilarity to the big screen for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the latest in a storied line of music-biz mockumentaries. Think Spinal Tap satire aimed at Bieber Nation, with Samberg starring as Connor4Real, a rapper/singer whose sophomore album bombs, leaving his fans adrift and Connor trying everything from disastrous publicity stunts to poorly conceived stylistic reinventions to regain cultural relevance. (DN) Rated R

Blake Lively plays surfer Nancy in this thriller. While being attacked by a shark, she comes to grips with how to survive and escape the path of the enormous great white shark. Director Jaume Collet-Serra creates a concept similar to the film Jaws when it comes to human survival against the killer fish roaming close to shore. (KL) Rated PG13

The second installment in this rebooted franchise is about an alien who wants to take over Earth for the usual reasons (i.e., no plausible ones) and it all plays like the script was written by an 8-year-old. The creepy anthropomorphized titular come across as a child’s idea of what being a grown-up must be like: all pizza parties and hanging out in your own cool hidden clubhouse. When you’re not fighting aliens with your ninja powers, of course. (MJ) Rated PG-13

WARCRAFT

Fans of Blizzard’s epic fantasy game franchise World of Warcraft can rejoice, as the long-promised film adaptation of the studio’s insanely popular franchise finally arrives, albeit in the form of a mostly CGI world. While critical reception has been less than tepid, anyone who’s a fan of the game is going to see this anyway. Set in worlds established through the game, two opposing species (orcs and humans) must overcome their differences and unite to battle a greater evil, lest they all perish. Rated PG-13 (CS)

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

X-Men: Apocalypse’s version of biggerfaster-more means that our mutant protagonists will need to save humanity from a villain who wants to destroy everything. You know, just everything — but especially bridges and recognizable world landmarks. That villain is En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), an ancient Egyptian quasi-god who awakens from a centuries-long slumber ready to eradicate pitiful, primitive humanity from the planet. (SR) Rated PG-13 

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First and foremost, there’s the middle-aged barmaid Janet Vokes, who overhears a pub patron discussing a racehorse he once owned (a less-than-positive experience, no less) and decides she’d like to do the same, with a little help from her friends. For this nurturing DARK HORSE woman and her Rated PG fellow syndicate Directed by Louise Osmond. members, breedAt Magic Lantern ing and racing Dream Alliance is not just some get-rich scheme motivated by profit. (At the end of the horse’s career, they each only cleared £1,430.) As his carefully chosen name indicates, he means much, much more to them.

Class plays a subtle but important role in the narrative of Dark Horse, as the villagers rub elbows with society’s elite and dare to intrude upon a traditional pastime of Britain’s landed gentry. (One can’t help but gleefully imagine the reactions to the warm, toothless grin of Vokes’ husband as he mingles amongst the racetrack crowd.) While the underdog element of this tale is emotionally gratifying, it’s the humanity on unadorned display here that will move you beyond words. Regardless of whether Dream Alliance wins, places or shows, he and this lovely film are, without question, a sure bet. 

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The enormously heartfelt documentary Dark Horse translates this equine grandeur into something even more breathtaking, recounting how the residents of an economically depressed Welsh mining village, people with no prior equestrian experience, pool their financial resources to breed a racehorse fittingly named Dream Alliance.

In this Cinderella story, the glass slipper is not the brief fame and fortune that this scrappy but determined animal brings to its unlikely owners, but the unconditional love he shares with those human beings, and the sense of pride they feel in his accomplishments, which include winning the 2009 Welsh Grand National.

It’s a you-can’t-write-this-kind-of-stuff true story that will bring tears (the good kind) to your eyes, beguiling in its simplicity and purity of heart. Take your handkerchief and prepare to well up, just as Dream Alliance’s workingclass owners occasionally do as they recall their life-enriching experience in the film. Watching their misty-eyed reminiscing is nothing less than

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Behind the Music

Now just a two-piece, the Buffalo, New York, act Goo Goo Dolls still make music, with the help of others.

From Elk to New York City, Jordan Miller now writes songs for the Goo Goo Dolls and more

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or 12 to 14 hours a day during the workweek, Jordan Miller is holed up at a Manhattan studio, writing lyrics and playing melodies. At night while he sleeps, these songs run together in his mind, musical lines are lost and nothing makes sense. But his stress dreams only push him to pursue his ultimate goal — to write that No. 1 radio hit that no one can stop humming.

Miller, who grew up in Elk, Washington, works at Arcade Songs, a New York City-based independent music publisher and production company, writing and providing backup vocals. He recently helped pen the poppy “Long Way Home” for the Goo Goo Dolls’ May release, Boxes, which the band has been playing on tour, which stops at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino outdoor

stage next week.

Miller was raised, along with his seven brothers and sisters, to make music. Everyone played something. His parents were music leaders as well as Christian missionaries, which took the family on year-long stints to Romania and Germany. But the Spokane area always felt like home.

About five years ago, Miller was invited into the nowdefunct local indie band Horse Thieves with his brother Adam Miller and Marshall McLean, the latter of whom went on to start the Marshall McLean Band. But at 21, he headed east.

“I figured I had to get the hell out of Dodge,” Miller says. “I don’t think I was a good drummer, either. If Horse Thieves got signed, I would have been the first guy to get fired.”

With $1,200 to his name, Miller scored an apartment in Brooklyn with 16 other artist-type roommates. “I slept in half of a closet,” he says. ...continued on next page

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Along with a friend and fellow songwriter, Miller spent a year making an album. While trying to shop it for a record deal last January, they met Arcade Songs owner/producer/writer Gregg Wattenberg (Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister,” Five For Fighting’s “Superman (It’s Not Easy)”) who passed on the album, but asked if they’d want to work for him instead.

Since then, Miller has been writing whenever and wherever he can, including on the subway.

“There’s something about the mundane, letting yourself rest,” Miller says. “Everyone goes into half-zombie mode and I’m on my phone typing ideas out.”

That’s how the Goo Goo Dolls credit came about. One day, Wattenberg interrupted a session Miller was working on and asked if he could come help out next door. That meant working with John Rzeznik and Robby Takac of the band best known for its 1998 hit “Iris.” They worked out some melodies. But Miller needed some time to write words, and took to public transportation for inspiration.

“I came in the next morning with the lyrics, and they all said, ‘That’s great,’” Miller says. “That never happens.”

But the euphoria didn’t last long, as Warner Bros. had to approve the song.

“The label process, that’s kind of like a dark period,” says Miller, who turns 25 this weekend. “And as a musician, you train yourself to never get excited. People always say they have ‘this great opportunity,’ it just never works out. So the day I got excited was when the album came out and it went Top 10 on iTunes.”

In writing, there’s a fine balance between what sounds like a hit and what also feels new.

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“The most important thing is listening to music,” Miller says.

“Just always be polluting your mind with new content, whether or not you like the music or it’s not your style. It will start influencing how you write, but it gets you out of writing the same thing over and over.”

Through his work with other groups like O.A.R. and the Karma Killers, Miller is seeing another side of the music industry.

Superstars like Kanye West, Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Adele have creative freedom, but artists who aren’t at the top of the fame pile must make records the way the label expects — meaning nothing too out-of-the-box, Miller says. That’s where acts enlist the help of songwriters.

“Lots of the people get screwed over by the industry. They’re stuck in shitty contracts,” Miller says. “But in this business there’s also crazy opportunity, you know?”

While there are times that Miller says he’d like to go back to the woods of Washington, he’s living the city life for now, working as hard as possible. Then there’s the No. 1 hit he still has to write.

“When you’re a writer you can build a whole career, one that’s a lot longer than an artist’s career,” Miller says. “You can change genres week to week and you don’t get called out for it.

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The guys from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are here to remind you that Cleveland rocks.

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wo weeks ago, victory finally came to Cleveland. Fans there screamed and jumped and cried when LeBron James (a native of nearby Akron) and his Cavaliers beat the record-setting Golden State Warriors in a thrilling Game 7 of the NBA Finals. The city had not won a professional sports championship since 1964. The drought was over.

Also cheering was the entire crew of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, the Grammy-winning melodic hip-hop group from the city where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stands. The act, who had performed during a Cavs halftime show earlier in the playoffs, posted congratulations to their team via social media, while still promoting their various city-themed works, including “Cleveland Is The City,” “The Land,” and “Love My City.”

Band member Layzie Bone posted on his Facebook page: “This one is for all the haters that don’t like to give props … This wasn’t set up it was @kingjames destiny for #Cleveland #allin216 Thank you Cavs #believeland” With the win, the city that raised them is getting respect on a national scale.

Bone Thugs, one of the first rap groups to implement singing and harmonizing into their music, have since influenced many artists, including Cleveland’s own Kid Cudi. But despite their hits like “Tha Crossroads” and “1st of tha Month,” which threw them into the national spotlight in the mid-’90s, the old-school act hasn’t

scored big on the rap charts in recent years.

Perhaps that’s why they can’t believe they’re still together. Flesh-n-Bone, the group’s oldest member at 43, told the Inlander in 2014 that they planned to be around for a long time, just like the Rolling Stones.

“Lucky for me, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony happened to be that one special group, and I feel fortunate because there’s not too many like that still around,” Flesh said. “For us, it’s just something far beyond anything you can ever imagine, to still be here like that.”

The group just keeps on touring. All five members — Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-n-Bone and Bizzy Bone — will be present Saturday night at the Knitting Factory.

Previously in town to help ring in the 2015 New Year, they’ve come through Spokane often. But this time, after their city’s newfound glory, their show can only be more of a party.

As Flesh-n-Bone told Slam magazine after James chose to take his talents back to Cleveland in 2014: “I think the city of Cleveland is going to be on fire. I really believe it’s going to be a great time for the city. It’s a great day in Cleveland to have LeBron back in the capacity he’s in.”  Bone Thugs-n-Harmony feat. Bonaphied, Huey P, Neves, Lee Haze, Sean Da Don, DJ Beauflexx • Sat, July 2, at 8 pm • $40/$100 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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ROCK RADKEY

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adkey doesn’t want you to think of their rockin’ three-piece as some sort of shtick. Yes, they’re three brothers — Dee, Isaiah and Solomon Radke — and they did start the band five years ago as teens, but they mostly want you to notice their extremely catchy garage punk tunes. Originally from St. Joseph, Missouri, where they were were home-schooled, listening to their father’s punk-filled record collection over and over, the group’s career took off in 2013, when after a South By Southwest festival performance, they were signed to tour Europe. Last year’s debut, Dark Black Makeup, shows off the band’s strengths — Dee’s beautiful baritone, paired with driving rhythms and memorable melodies. This month, they play most of the West Coast, making a stop at the Bartlett on Saturday.

— LAURA JOHNSON Radkey and Itchy Kitty • Fri, July 1, at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Thursday, 06/30

BARloWS AT lIBeRTy lAKe, Sunny Nights Duo THe BIg DIppeR, Thready Thursday Voyage to the Pirate Party feat.

Duffrey, BrainFunk, Jellyfyst, DJ Gunnar Swager BoomeRS ClASSIC RoCK BAR & gRIll, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BooTS BAKeRy & louNge, The Song Project J BuCeR’S CoFFeeHouSe puB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BuCKHoRN INN, The Spokane River Band J CHApS, Spare Parts J CHeCKeRBoARD BAR, Wizzerd, Swamp Ritual, Tsuga CoeuR D’AleNe CASINo, PJ Destiny CRAFTeD TAp HouSe + KITCHeN, Kosh CRAve, DJ Freaky Fred CRuISeRS, Prophets of Addiction FIzzIe mullIgANS, Kicho J JoHN’S Alley, Duke Evers J lAguNA CAFé, Just Plain Darin leFTBANK WINe BAR, Roger Dines mooN TIme (208-667-2331), Melefluent mICKDuFF’S BeeR HAll (208-2096700), Ben Olson o’SHAyS IRISH puB & eATeRy, Open mic with Adrian and Leo THe oBSeRvAToRy, Vinyl Meltdown ReD Room louNge, Reggae Night feat. Sol Seed, Real Life Sound THe RIDleR pIANo BAR, The Bobby Patterson Band RIvelle’S RIveR gRIll (208-9300381), Truck Mills with special guests jam night J RIveRSToNe pARK, Jazz Northwest STACKS AT STeAm plANT (7773900), Rooftop Happy Hour feat.

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ROCK BLITZEN TRAPPER

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ome bands seem to arrive fully formed, already locked in and seemingly at the height of their collective powers. So it was the first time I saw Blitzen Trapper more than a decade ago in a funky former church in Portland. The quintet, led by precocious songwriter Eric Earley, delivered a set of rootsy rock tunes that occasionally sprawled into epic, spacey jams, but more often delivered sonic gut punches in concise, three-minute bursts. It was enthralling, and all the more so since they were still an unsigned band just getting started. They’ve only gotten better since, as evidenced by their excellent 2015 release All Across This Land. If you missed their recent show at The Bartlett, get thee to Sandpoint and see what I mean for yourself.

— DAN NAILEN Blitzen Trapper with Frontier Ruckus • Fri, July 1, at 9 pm • $15 • 21+ • The Hive • 207 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • livefromthehive.com • 208-457-2392

Friends of Mine, DJ Locke TemplIN’S ReD lIoN (208-773-1611), Sammy Eubanks J THe RoADHouSe, Indigenous THe vIKINg BAR & gRIll, Tommy G, Ron Greene zolA, Troubadour

Friday, 07/01

315 mARTINIS & TApAS, Truck Mills J THe BARTleTT, Radkey (See story above), Itchy Kitty BeveRly’S, Robert Vaughn J THe BIg DIppeR, Divides, Elephant Gun Riot, Ghost Heart, Winter in June, Coast Culture BISTANgo mARTINI louNge, Just Plain Darin Bolo’S, The Viberaiderzz THe BlIND BuCK (290-6229), Deathstar J BuCeR’S CoFFeeHouSe puB, Heather & the Soulmotions

CloveR (487-2937), Jessica Haffner CoeuR D’AleNe CASINo, Smash Hit Carnival CoNKlINg mARINA & ReSoRT, Still Kickin’ CuRley’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE J DoWNToWN SpoKANe lIBRARy (444-5300), B Radicals J THe HIve, Blitzen Trapper (See story above), Frontier Ruckus IDAHo pouR AuTHoRITy (208-5977096), John Hastings IRoN HoRSe BAR, PJ Destiny J lAguNA CAFé, Nick Schauer, Scott Steed & Julia Keefe mICKDuFF’S BeeR HAll, Devon Wade mooSe louNge, Dragonfly NASHvIlle NoRTH, Luke Jaxon feat.

DJ Tom NoDlAND CellARS (927-7770), Chris Rieser and Jay Rawley NoRTHeRN QueST CASINo, DJ Ramsin

NyNe, DJ and dance pANIDA THeATeR (208-263-9191), Duke Evers peND oReIlle plAyHouSe, Open Mic J THe pIN!, Friday Night Vybes Party feat. DJs J ReD lIoN HoTel AT THe pARK, Sammy Eubanks Rex THeATRe, Jeanne Jolly THe RIDleR pIANo BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J THe SHop, DJ Teej SoulFul SoupS & SpIRITS, Deschamp zolA, Jesse Weston Trio

Saturday, 07/02

J BARloWS AT lIBeRTy lAKe, Just Plain Darin BeveRly’S, Robert Vaughn THe BIg DIppeR, Helluva Night DJ X, Moe Davis, Mack Muve, and Benji

Frankkz Bolo’S, The Viberaiderzz J BuCeR’S CoFFeeHouSe puB, Dan Maher CAlypSoS CoFFee & CReAmeRy, Folding Mr. Lincoln CHeCKeRBoARD BAR, Amy Bleu CoeuR D’AleNe CASINo, Smash Hit Carnival CoNKlINg mARINA & ReSoRT, Still Kickin’ CuRley’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE J DoWNToWN SANDpoINT, Summer Sounds with Mobius Riff eICHARDT’S, John Firshi IDAHo pouR AuTHoRITy, David Walsh IRoN HoRSe BAR, PJ Destiny THe JACKSoN ST., DJ Dave J KNITTINg FACToRy, Bone Thugsn-Harmony, Bonaphied, Huey P, Neves, Lee Haze, Sean Da Don, DJ Beauflexx and more (See story on

page 53) LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Heavy Wood LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Lyle Morse MOOSE LOUNGE, Dragonfly NASHVILLE NORTH, 4th of July party feat. DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin NYNE, DJ and dance J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Mojo Box REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Robert Sarazin Blake THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Truck Mills J THE SHOP, Doug Laplante J TRINITY AT CITY BEACH, Arthur and Mia with Bright Moments J THE PIN!, Mobile Deathcamp, Resurgence, Alcohology, Dysfunktynal Kaos ZOLA, Jesse Weston Trio

Sunday, 07/03

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, The Rhythm Dawgs

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BIG BARN BREWING CO. (710-2961), Sunday Concert Series feat. Feral Anthem J THE BIG DIPPER, Hot Night Acoustic feat. Karrie O’Neill, Whitherward, Andy Rumsey, Erin Parkes J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Wheatley Matthews COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, The Man in Black show (Johnny Cash Tribute, Smash Hit Carnival CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Still Kickin’ CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Hannah Rebecca CURLEY’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. the Rub J DOWNTOWN NEWPORT, Scotia Road IRON HORSE BAR, Riverboat Band IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL (9268411), AlgoRhythms LINGER LONGER LOUNGE (208-6232211), Open jam J TRINITY AT CITY BEACH, Bruce Bishop and Drew ZOLA, Evan Denlinger Trio

Monday, 07/04

COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Smash Hit Carnival EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil J PAVILLION PARK, Liberty Lake 4th

of July Fireworks + Concert feat.

Tuxedo Junction, Nobody Famous J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, 4th of July celebration feat. Barking Katz RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox J SILVERWOOD THEME PARK (208683-3400), Silverwood Fireworks Extravaganza

Tuesday, 07/05

THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, John Firshi THE RESERVE, Open Mic THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open mic Jam Session SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx J THE PIN!, The Animal in Me, Set to Stun ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 07/06 J THE BARTLETT, Royal Jelly Jive, the South Hill, Breadbox J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. Banner Days EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Rock the Nest feat. Milonga J NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Goo Goo Dolls (See story on page 51, Collective Soul, Tribe Society RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, R&B with Slow Cookin’ SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic J THE PIN!, Stoic, Earth Groans, East Sherman, Narrow Minded, Deformer THE PIN!, DJ Freaky Fred THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes ZOLA, The Bossame

Palms, July 8 KNITTING FACTORY, Black Stone Cherry, July 8 BULL HEAD TAVERN, Rodeo Weekend feat. Spokane River Band, July 8-9 SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE, KYRS Rooftop concert with Casual Hex, Big Bite, S1ugs, July 9 THE BARTLETT, Soul Night feat. the Dip, Super Sparkle, 45th St. Brass, July 9 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Alice in Chains, July 9 THE OBSERVATORY, Dark White Light, Snakes/Sermons, the Ashamed, July 9 CHATEAU RIVE, Trout Fishing in America with Dana Louise & The Glorious Birds, July 10 THE OBSERVATORY, Lemolo, July 10 BING CROSBY THEATER, Buckethead, July 11 THE BARTLETT, Wye Oak, July 11 THE HIVE, Kimock, July 12 THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Rock the Nest feat. David Luning, July 13 THE PIN!, Omnipotent Hysteria, Embodied Torment, Face of Oblivion, July 13 THE BARTLETT, Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers, July 13 THE PIN!, Vesuvius (Tragic Hero Records), Heart of An Awl, Fed to the Flames, Ghost Heart, July 14 THE BIG DIPPER, Billy Strings, Moses Willey, No Going Back Band, July 14 THE BARTLETT, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, July 14

GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Phish, July 15-16 THE BARTLETT, Chris Pureka, July 15 SPOKANE ARENA, KISS, Caleb Johnson, July 15 SOUTH PERRY BUSINESS DISTRICT, South Perry Street Fair feat. Marshall McLean Band, Delbert, Super Sparkle, Silver Treason, Little Wolf, Grooveacre, July 16 PLUMMER, IDAHO, Bands, Brews ‘n’ BBQ, July 16, 5-10 pm.

THE PALOMINO, Jesse Quandt Band with Brenna Yaeger, July 16 THE BARTLETT, The Cave Singers, July 16, THE PIN!, Saul, All But Lost, July 16 HOGFISH, Bullets or Balloons, Sleepwell Citizen, Bird Fight, July 16 THE MUSEUM, Blessthefall, Like Moths to Flames, Get Scared, Picturesque, July 17 THE BIG DIPPER, Perspective, A Lovely Hand to Hold, Fell Better, Griffey, Wake Up Flora, July 17 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, The Avett Brothers, Grace Potter, July 19 BABY BAR, Toner, New Circle, Local Pavlov, S1ugs, July 19 THE BIG DIPPER, Rising Apalacia, July 20 MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Chris Cornell, Fantastic Negrito, July 20 THE HIVE, The Wailers, July 20 GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Dead & Company, July 23 GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Watershed Festival, July 29-31 and Aug. 5-7

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THE PIN!, Robbie Walden Band, Erika Anderson, Christy Lee, Jesse Qaundt, Bobby Schaefer, July 7 THE BARTLETT, Frontier Ruckus, July 7 BABY BAR, Lunch Duchess, July 8 DOWNTOWN WALLACE, Wallace Blues Festival feat. Sammy Eubanks, Curtis Salgado, Samantha Fish, Harlis Sweetwater, Ayron Jones and the Way, Dr. Phil and the Enablers,Dog House Boyz, John Kelley,, July 8-10 EUREKA MOUNTAIN CENTER, Sandpoint SummerFest feat. Whiskey Shivers, Down North, Trout Fishing in America and more RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Harliss Sweetwater Band, July 8 THE PIN!, Impurities, Words From Aztecs, Method of Conflict [late show] Illest Luminati, July 8 THE BARTLETT, We Are Scientists, the

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COMMUNITY FESTIVE FOURTH

Where to celebrate America’s freedom this Independence Day: Riverfront Park | Live music, food and group performances, starting at noon, lead up to the city’s free fireworks show over the river at 10 pm.

Pavillion Park, Liberty Lake | The city’s Fourth of July parade starts at noon. Afterward, there’s a free outdoor concert (6 pm), and a fireworks show at dusk.

Spokane Indians | The Indians’ Fourth of July Family Fun Run starts at Avista Stadium at 9 am, with an evening fireworks show after a 6:30 pm game against the Boise Hawks.

Coeur d’Alene Casino | Catch a free fireworks show at 10 pm.

The resort also offers food/drink specials and live music.

Silverwood Theme Park | Spend a day in the park and watch a fireworks show at dusk, free with admission.

Downtown Coeur d’Alene | Billed as North Idaho’s biggest fireworks diplay, you can see it from anywhere downtown.

Lake Spokane | A free fireworks show starts at dusk at Lakeside Middle School, 6169 N. Highway 291.

Sandpoint | The city’s free fireworks show begins at dusk at City Beach.

— KRISTI LUCCHETTA

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VISUAL ARTS A TRIO OF PATHS

WORDS NORTHWEST NARRATIVES

You Are Here • June 29 through Sept. 29; gallery open Mon-Fri, from 8 am-5 pm • Free to view • Chase Gallery, Spokane City Hall • 801 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • spokanearts.org

Reading: Alexis Smith and Shawn Vestal • Thu, June 30, at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com

This weekend, the Chase Gallery opens its summer-long show, themed around maps’ and pathways’ connections to nature and to larger social, philosophical and political ideas. The exhibit showcases the works of three artists: Boise’s Chad Erpelding, Spokane’s Chris Tyllia and Sandpoint’s Tricia Florence. All three artists utilize data systems, maps and topography to craft their works, resulting in a thematically unified exhibit that’s sure to make you think and feel.

— ISAAC HANDELMAN

With an impressive lineup of authors this summer, Auntie’s Bookstore’s next event features Spokane author Shawn Vestal, whose first full-length novel Daredevils was released this spring. Joining him is Portland author Alexis Smith, whose newly published second novel, Marrow Island, explores our connections to the past through haunting, beautiful prose. Set in the Northwest, with many references to current and ongoing events, Smith’s novel follows a 30-something journalist who returns home to an island in the San Juans devastated by an earthquake two decades prior.

— CHEY SCOTT

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Noon–8 pm • Saturday, July 2 Noon–1:30 Karrie O’Neill Acoustic Pop/Folk

1:30–3:30 Butterscotch Blonde Eclectic Rock Favorites Discover Spokane’s own secret garden, a place — like its fictional counterpart — that was almost lost to time. This summer, the nonprofit Friends of the Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens are offering a series of guided tours of the exquisitely landscaped hillside garden, originally built between 1911 and 1914. Decades later, in the shadow of the Great Depression, the garden was all but forgotten, its terraced pathways and reflecting pools left to the whims of nature. Rediscovered in 1997 after trees across the steep hillside snapped during Spokane’s 1996 ice storm, previously hidden features of the gardens were revealed to a new generation. A subsequent 10-year restoration process brought the gardens back to life; they reopened to the public in 2007.

— CHEY SCOTT Guided Tours of the Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens • Wed, July 6, at 2 pm; upcoming tours on July 17, Aug. 3 and Aug. 21 (times vary) • Free, donations accepted • 507 W. Seventh • heritagegardens.org

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COMEDY

COMEDY 2.0PEN MIC A competitive comedy open mic; with the winner getting $20. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm, through Aug. 4. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First. (244-3279) SUSAN JONES A recent finalist in NBC 2015 National Standup Search, Jones has appeared on UpLateNW as well as opened for Rob Schneider and Brad Garrett. June 30-July 2; Thu-Sat at 8 pm, also Sat at 10:30 pm. $10$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) BAGELS & BAKLAVA AND FRIENDS Live comedy show featuring Janice

Messitte, Greg Kritikos, A.G. White and Barry Ribs. July 1, 8 pm. $32. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com EXPEDITION The BDT’s Friday night improv show for July and August, starting at 8 pm. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com ZANY ZANIAC COMEDY A show by performer Alex Zerbe, melding the worlds of comedy, music, circus arts and self-expression, all while emphasizing creativity, literacy and persistence. July 1, 11 am-noon. (Also from 3-4 pm at the Cheney branch). Free.

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I SAW YOU WAKE UP CALL IN THE VALLEY A: We keep looking at each other?! If it's more than professional friendliness, you need to make the first move... for obvious reasons :).

STA BUS BARN BENCH SITTER You make my evening when I see you sitting, reading your book. As I go by and you look up, makes me smile. You are a very handsome, intriguing man. Just thought I'd let you know that you brighten someone's day, every time we met eyes. Enjoy your books!

IS MY DISTANT FRIEND BACK AGAIN? :) Do you ever get the feeling like some one you knew from your past, is watching you? Then you think you've seen them? If you have, then you know what I'm talking about.

When I was at school when I was younger, an older guy liked me. He was about four years older than me but yet he always spied on me. We never really talked to each other but some how, we both knew what we were both thinking. We just had this connection.

And for about five years, we played the like game at school. To this day, I still feel like he can see me. May be I'm crazy. Maybe he still likes me and I have seen him around lately.

The last time I saw him was on December 13, 2011. It was during my winter concert at school. I just don't know what to think.

I just want to be able to see him again and this time to talk to him. We had some misunderstandings and a few bad days, but life does go on. Do you know who I am spying, buddy? Did you ever love me? Are you back in my life for real this time? Talk to me on Facebook, but first accept my

friend request.

CHEERS TO THE CARING, KIND, LOVING, SUPPORTIVE, COMPASSIONATE WOMAN Who took the initiative to send out emails of hope and encouragement to different organizations and individuals within the LGBTQ community after the Orlando tragedy; to let them know that all of them mattered to her; that she cared. I cried when I read the sweetest, most sentimental email ever sent to me. Then I asked if she had sent similar emails to others and if so, if there was a response. She sent a lot of emails but wasn't yet finished sending them all out. Yes, she had gotten a few responses, but that's not why they were sent and she never expected any responses at all. "If there's ever been a time the LGBTQ community needs allies, it's now more than ever." That's why she sent out those emails.

So I thank you for being there for us. You have a very beautiful heart. You are truly a diamond in the rough.

THANKS FIREFIGHTERS! Thanks to the Spokane firefighters who responded so quickly when my pickup engine caught "fire" on Friday evening. I appreciated your calm demeanor and kindness as I was panicking over what turned out to be a not-so-serious problem. I followed your suggestions and was able to get my beloved pickup home safely and quickly.

Thank you all!

CHEF TYLER AT 1889 PUBLIC HOUSE Chef Tyler is an amazing chef! Everything at 1898 Public House is excellent! He not only creates the best dishes, he also brings it out to you! How many chefs do that? I love coming out there to eat! Great Chef, great view, and great service!

CHEERS TO ROSAUERS, JEERS TO "SERVICE DOGS" Rosauers, locally owned, is my 'go to' store: local, great customer service, good quality and prices! Cheers!

I went to pay for my groceries, found I'd put my wallet down, told the clerk, who after looking in lost and found without success, said she'd hold the groceries for me at checkout, and we could work out something. Returning to checkout empty handed, she gave me my wallet, with her bright smile and no judgement. Cheers!

Thanks to the customer, who turned it in intact. Cheers! I'd left it in the banana bin.

There's no small irony in that. Jeers on me!

... and Jeers! to the customer walking her dog through the store a week earlier. The dog had nothing to identify it as a service animal. I asked two staff about it, and they said all Rosauers can do by regulation is post signs at the doors of the store.

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share yourself with someone, then you should have the courage to be honest faceto-face about your feelings.

KREACHER To the young lady that decided to decided to pull my best friend to the ground while her back was turned, I dedicate this to you. I have had the pleasure of going out every Hoopfest weekend since

and you don't pull over. PULL OVER and let all the other cars pass you! It's common courtesy! The other driver is a hazard to everyone's life: They often are driving some gigantic Truck or SUV and going down big Sandy or up it but especially down it, they charge around the other drivers, even illegally crossing over the lines to pass

If you’re over the age of 25 and decide to break it off with your significant other through a text message, you are a coward.

violation of rights. Meantime staff clean up after dogs and their owners. Jeers!

Disability stickers are required for folks to park in handicapped spots. Cheers! All customers can be asked for verification of ID in all sorts of situations and places.

Cheers! For the good of all, let's put in place reasonable guidelines for verifying the status of a service dog. Cheers! How about a coalition of disabled folks and advocates, grocery stores and their associations and public health to resolve this issue. Cheers!

Thanks Rosauers, strong community members.

JEERS KEEP TEXTING I bought a cheap car that I don't care about. By all means continue texting while swerving all over your lane. I will no longer try to avoid you. I will let you hit me. I am old and have cheap insurance!

Have fun!

GROW UP If you're over the age of 25 and decide to break it off with your significant other through a text message, you are a coward. You remember what life was like before technology and have the ability to grow up and act like an adult instead of hiding behind your phone. If you have enough courage to ask someone out from the beginning, let your guard down, and

SOUND OFF 1. Visit Inlander.com/isawyou by 3 pm Monday. 2. Pick a category (I Saw You, You Saw Me, Cheers or Jeers). 3.

Provide basic info: your name and email (so we know you’re real). 4. To connect via I Saw You, provide a non-identifying email to be included with your submission — like “petals327@yahoo.com,” not “j.smith@comcast.net.”

I was 18 years old. It is always a joy to meet nice out-of-towners and locals who are just having a good time. Last night, however, I encountered an enslaved house elf. It is easy to tell these creatures apart, because they wear drab by old clothes and act as tho they are enslaved to men. You decided it was OK to pull my friend to the ground when her back was turned, because she was taking to your master. Bad elf. I feel sorry for you Kreacher. Your self-esteem is that low. Just know the next time I see you, I will not be setting you free with a sock.

I will in fact, be dusting off my wand and pulling an AVADA KEDAVRA curse on you.

You are lucky I was using Moaning Myrtles' room at the time of this offense, otherwise you, lonely house elf, would be worse off. N ext time your try and give a "kiss of death" remember that you are a house elf, You are not a Dementor. You do not hold this power... And if you have no clue what I'm talking about, go to your nearest library (a place to check out books), as I'm sure Irma Pince would help you.

TO THE HORRIBLE DRIVERS COMING OUT OF NINE MILE These are the two worst types of extreme drivers coming out of Nine Mile on weekday mornings making it hell: The ones who drive 5-7 mph under the speed limit WHEN THERE IS NO RAIN OR SNOW AND IT IT IS PERFECTLY DRY and there are LITERALLY 20 Cars behind you

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people up on snowy, icy and rainy days who just aren't going fast enough for them.

IS IT ANY WONDER WE HAVE HORRIBLE ACCIDENTS?!?!? Stop being selfish and stop putting other people's lives in danger with your reckless death wish! Why do the cops never pull these trucks over? Instead I see the cops pulling over people who go the same speed as the rest of traffic.

Ridiculous! I'd like to see the cops pull over these behemoths and road bullies going up and down big sandy and trying to mow everyone over! 

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SAFARI Fast-paced, short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Recommended for ages 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com FIRST THURSDAY COMEDY Live standup comedy the first Thursday of every month in Impulse Nightclub at 8 pm (doors open at 6 pm). Each edition of the show features funny local folks from around the region. Ages 21+ only. $10.

Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (509-242-7000) GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm.

Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) MARC MARON For more than 20, this comedy legend has been writing and performing raw, thought-provoking comedy for print, stage, radio, online and television. July 7-9 at 7:30 pm, also July 8-9 at 10:30 pm. $20-$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998) THE MIDNIGHT GOATS A performance by the musical improv duo (David Honeycutt and Michael Glatzmaier) that takes suggestions from the audience, turns them into songs that inspire improvised scene work. July 9, 10 pm. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bit. ly/2957XjN (747-7045) IMPROV JAM SESSIONS An opportunity to try something new, polish your improv skills and have fun. Each session is led by a BDT Troupe member, and is an informal get together and not considered an improv class. For ages 18+. Meets Mondays, from 7-9 pm (see website for dates, as the event doesn’t happen weekly). Free.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) IAN ABRAMSON The comedian has contributed to The Onion, Comedy Central, Funny or Die, and performed at multiple, major comedy festivals. July 12, 8 pm. $8/$10. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com

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CORBIN WALKERS The group meets on Thursday mornings at 8:45 am (through Oct. 27) and takes the van to a different starting point each week, walks about an hour and return to Corbin for a coffee break. $2/person per trip. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland. (327-1584) FREE ERECYCLING DROP-OFF Artisans hosts a free eRecycling drop-off in partnership with Prime Source and Horizon Credit Union’s Shred Day. At the Prime Source Credit, 9797 N. Nevada. Bring any working or non-working unwanted electronics. June 30, 11 am-2 pm. (325-4489) BECOMING A FOSTER PARENT INFO MEETING The Service Alternatives team hosts an informational meeting on how to become a foster parent. Email to call to reserve a spot. Held monthly on the first Friday, from 3-5 pm. Free. At Service

Alternatives, 1303 N Division. servalt.com COMMUNITY TRIBUTE TO SCOTT REED & ART MANLEY Kootenai Environmental Alliance and the Tubbs Hill Foundation co-host a community tribute to commemorate the work done by Scott Reed and Art Manley to safeguard the environment and keep treasured places like Tubbs Hill and Lake Coeur d’Alene accessible for public use and enjoyment. Event includes live music, huckleberry refreshments and more. July 1, 5 pm. Free and open to the public. McEuen Park, 420 E. Front St. cdaid.org (208-769-2252) FIND WALDO IN SPOKANE The famous children’s book character is visiting 25 local businesses throughout the community this July. Pick up a free passport, and get it stamped for all the Waldos you spot, entering a drawing to be held on July 31. Free to participate. Downtown Spokan. auntiesbookstore.com INVENTION CONNECTION: ROBOT BRAINS Build an invention from your imagination using Spark Center’s Legos, Robotics, Little Bits, Minecraft, iPads, building toys, and more. Each event will have special challenges that encourage kids to push the limits of their engineering skills. July 1, 4-6 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org (279-0299) FOURTH OF JULY KIDS’ PARADE The city’s annual prelude to 4th of July festivities, giving local kids a chance to march down Sherman Ave. July 2, 10 am. Downtown Coeur d’Alene. (208-415-0116) KINETIC FEST BUILD DAYS Come down to Gizmo and build your own human powered kinetic sculpture vehicle. A

trailer of bike parts is provided, access to Gizmo’s tools and workspace and more.

Then enter your kinetic sculpture vehicle in the Kinetic Fest Parade on July 10.

Open workshop hours on July 2 and 9, 10 am-6 pm. $36. Gizmo-cda, 806 N. Fourth St. facebook.com/cdakineticfest/timeline SUMMER LEGO CLUB Have more ideas than you can build in one hour? Don’t worry, the SCLD has you covered at recurring Lego Clubs all summer long. All ages are welcome; children age 6 and under must bring an adult. Offered July 2 and Aug. 6, 4-5:30 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. (893-8340) CHINA BEND SUMMER PARTY An event with live music from the Bobby Patterson Band and The Planetary Refugees, with live entertainment by Zenith of Gypsy Moon Belly Dancers, along with volleyball, family activities, food and more. July 2, 12-9 pm. $10. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way, Kettle Falls, Wash. chinabend.com (732-6123) TWO RIVERS FIREWORKS SHOW Starts at dusk, with live music by the Night Shift on July 1 and by Garrett Bartley on the 2 (both shows from 8-10 pm). July 2. Free.

Two Rivers Casino and Resort, 6828B S. Hwy 25. (800-722-4031) IDAHO STATEHOOD DAY PARADE A community parade through downtown Wallace to celebrate Idaho’s 126th years of statehood. July 3. Downtown Wallace, Idaho. wallaceidahochamber.com CDA FOURTH OF JULY PARADE A patriotic parade down Sherman Street during the day, followed by a fireworks show over Lake Coeur d’Alene at dusk. July 4.

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Riverfront Park, Spokane. (625-6601) KELLOGG 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION Events include music in the park, a vendor fair, parade, and an evening fireworks show at Silver Mountain. July 4. Free. Kellogg, Idaho. silvervalleychamber.com PULLMAN FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION Events include a fireworks show at 10 pm, a barbecue, live music and more.

July 4. Free. Sunnyside Park, 147 SW Cedar. pullmanchamber.com RED, WHITE & BOOM! CELEBRATION A family fun day with a video game truck, bounce house, inflatables, water slide, food and other activities. After the event at dusk, set off your own fireworks on the softball field. July 4, 3-9 pm. Free. Davenport Sports Complex, 27242 McInnis Rd. (215-0945) SANDPOINT FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION The Sandpoint Lions Club sponsors parades downtown in the morning; stage performances and a raffle follow at City Beach in the afternoon, plus a fireworks show over the lake at dusk. July 4. Free. (208-263-4118) LIBERTY LAKE FIREWORKS + CONCERT A concert in the park by local big band Tuxedo Junction, along with a show by Nobody Famous, followed by a fireworks show in the park. Music at 6 pm, fireworks at 10 pm. July 4. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. pavillionpark.org

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If pizza is your go-to munchie, consider Pizza Hut’s Triple Treat Box: two medium, one-topping pizzas, breadsticks and the Ultimate Hershey’s Chocolate Chip Cookie for just $20.

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Last but not least, with nearly 40 locations in the Inland Northwest, it doesn’t get more convenient, inexpensive or all-encompassing than Zip’s Drive-in.

The beloved local chain serves breakfast (from 4-10:30 am), lunch, dinner and dessert, and is open 24/7.

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ACCORDION STORIES Parents and children work together to create a simple accordion book where children illustrate and parents interpret the pictures. We’ll share our stories afterwards and celebrate our creativity. Ages 0-6; register online. July 5, 12-1:15 pm. Free.

Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org (509-279-0299) COLFAX BIKE RODEO The Whitman County Library teams with the Colfax Police Department to invite kids of all ages to bring their bikes to the Baptist Church parking lot (200 N. Mill St.) where they will take part in a host of fun and important free activities. July 5, 4 pm. Free. visitcolfax.com (397-4366) ZENTANGLE Local expert Loretta West teaches this popular method to express your creative visions. July 5, 6-7 pm.

Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. (893-8340) GUIDED GARDEN TOURS Hear the history of the hillside garden, landscaped and cultivated for two early, influential families of Spokane. Also learn how the garden was discovered and restored as it can be seen today. Tours offered July 6, 2 pm; July 17, 11 am; Aug. 3, 2 pm; and Aug. 21, 11 am. Free, donations accepted. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh. heritagegardens.org YOUTH FITNESS EXTRAVAGANZA A fun, 2-hour event just for kids ages 5-12, with competitive games and prizes.

Local high school athletes assist trainers to help make it energized, safe and fun. July 6, 10 am-noon. $10. Mead High School, 302 W. Hastings Rd. theacademyspokane.com (402-677-0335) COLFAX FIRST THURSDAY Visit downtown Colfax for the “Red, White and Blue Celebration” on Spring Street, adjacent the library. Includes live music, produce and craft vendors and events/ activities, including a book and video sale. July 7, 3-7 pm. Free. (533-9729) SPOKANE VALLEY PARKS FREE SWIM DAYS The public is invited to enjoy city pools for free on the following dates/ locations: July 8, at Valley Mission; July 29 at Terrace View; and Aug. 26, at Park Road Pool. See flier/website for free swim session times. spokanevalley.org RIVERFRONT PARK BLOCK PARTY A community celebration to kick off construction for the big park renovation.

Events include a 30-ton sandbox for kids, life-size sidewalk games, a paintby-numbers project, beer garden, live music and food from Spokane area food trucks for purchase. July 8, 3-8 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. bit.ly/295eevR (509-625-6601)

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FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION Catch a fireworks show at 10 pm, with food and drink specials at the casino. July 4, 10 pm. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com COLFAX CONCRETE RIVER FESTIVAL Events during the Palouse town’s annual summer festival include a parade, car cruise, art walk, roller derby, arts and crafts vendors, historic tours, battle of the bands, fireworks and more. July 7-10. concreteriverfestival.com CHEWELAH CHATAQUA Chewelah’s 43rd annual festival hosts carnival rides, a parade, food, arts and crafts vendors, live music, entertainment, a beer garden and much more, held in City Park along the creekside. July 8-10. chewelahchataqua.com/chataqua

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BLAZING SADDLES Screening as part of the Garland’s “Summer Camp 2016” series, this year featuring staff favorites. June 28, 7 pm and June 30, 5 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) FREE SUMMER MOVIES: BOYS ON THE HOOD Showing as part of the Garland’s annual, free summer movie series for kids. June 27-July 1, at 9:30 am. Free.

Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) HOOK A family-friendly outdoor film screening as part of U. Idaho Student Involvement’s “Screen on the Green” series, on the Theophilus Tower lawn.

June 30, 8:45 pm. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu DOUGH A warmhearted and humorous story about overcoming prejudice.

Showing July 2-3; show times vary. $4-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) SATURDAY MARKET CARTOONS Screenings during farmers market hours at the Kenworthy, offered Saturdays, from 9-noon, through Sept. 24 Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) KUNG FU PANDA 3 An outdoor screening of the family-friendly film hosted by the Friends of Pavillion Park. Movie starts at dusk. July 3. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. (755-6726) FREE SUMMER MOVIES: SHAUN THE SHEEP Showing as part of the Garland’s annual, free summer movie series for kids. July 4-8, at 9:30 am. Free.

Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) GURUKULAM The film follows a group of students and their teacher as they confront fundamental questions about the nature of reality and self-identity at a remote forest ashram in southern India. Screening daily, July 4-8. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. magiclanternspokane.com (509-209-2383) SPIRITED AWAY Screening as part of the Garland’s “Summer Camp 2016” series, this year featuring staff favorites.

July 5, 7 pm and July 7, 5 pm. $2.50.

Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) SPOKANE OUTDOOR MOVIES: ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS Offering outdoor, open-air seating and drive-in style in your car. $3-$5/person; $20/carload (four or more). Cash only entry at the gate. July 5, 7 pm. Joe Albi Stadium, Wellesley Ave. and Assembly St. OUTDOOR MOVIES AT RIVERFRONT PARK: THE GOONIES The summer series features big screen outdoor movies, live entertainment, trivia and local food vendors. Seating opens at 7 pm; movies start at dusk. All events are dog friendly. $5/person; ages 5 and under free. July 6, 7 pm. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. epiceap.com (625-6601) THE PEANUTS MOVIE A screening as part of the Kenworthy’s 15th annual Summer Matinee Movie Series for kids.

July 6-7, 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) SPOKANE OUTDOOR MOVIES: KUNG FU PANDA 3 Offering outdoor, openair seating and drive-in style in your car. $3-$5/person; $20/carload (four or more). Cash only entry at the gate. July 6, 7 pm. Spokane County Raceway, 750 N. Hayford Rd. bit.ly/1XF9YXu

DESTINATION IDAHO A screening of the new film by Karen Day featuring the highlights of the Gem State. Prior to the main feature, Day’s three-minute short, “Because I Can,” about Idaho’s Olympic hopeful Kristin Armstrong will be shown. July 7, 7 pm. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) INSIDE OUT A family-friendly outdoor film screening as part of U. Idaho Student Involvement’s “Screen on the Green” series, on the Theophilus Tower lawn. July 7, 8:45 pm. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu MOVIES IN THE PARK: JURASSIC WORLD Includes free, pre-movie activities for kids, an hour before the films start, at sunset. July 8. Free. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Pkwy. spokanevalley.org (688-0300)

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ROOFTOP HAPPY HOUR PARTY The first event of the summer series, featuring happy hour specials, live music and more, all on the rooftop of the Steam Plant. Upcoming events on July 23, 28, Aug. 20, 25 and Sept. 29. Free admission. Steam Plant Square, 159 S. Lincoln. steamplantsummerseries.com SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar from Cigar Train during an event on the headed, outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) STEEL BARREL TAPROOM GRAND OPENING The brewery incubator and restaurant space hosts its grand opening, with lawn games, prizes, beer, a whole pig roast by Chef Chad White and more. June 30, 6 pm-1 am. Free.

The Steel Barrel, 154 S. Madison. bit. ly/2969309 (315-9879) GREEN BLUFF STRAWBERRY CELEBRATION Farmers on the bluff host the annual ode to strawberries, the first fruit of the season, in their prime. July 1-3.

Free to attend. greenbluffgrowers.com RIDE & DINE DINNER SERIES Enjoy live music and a barbecue dinner at the top of the mountain. Every Friday, from July 1-Sept. 2. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com ROCKET MARKET WINE CLASSES Wine specialist Matt Dolan and cheese expert Christine Jameson teach attendees how to pair wine and cheese with food, and how to find affordable wines from all over the world. Fridays, at 7 pm. See website for details. $20. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd. rocketmarket.com VINO WINE TASTING Sample selections from the Wine of the Month Club and also see artwork as part of First Friday by Carolyn Stephens. Tastings include cheese and crackers. July 1, 3-7:30 pm. Vino!, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com (838-1229) COMMUNITY COOKING NIGHTS Each class covers scratch cooking skills, and how to apply those skills to simple, healthy, and cost-effective meals.

Register online. Wednesday nights in July, from 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org (252-6246) SINGING NUNS LUNCHEON An annual luncheon and concert; also enjoy tours of the historic grounds. July 6, 11 am-2 pm. $12-$15. Mt. St. Michael’s, 8500 N. Saint Michaels Rd. singingnuns.com

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess The GifT Of BlAB

AMY ALKON

My girlfriend tells her mother and her friends pretty much everything. Literally four of her friends and her mom were weighing in on her recent urinary tract infection. I just don’t get why she feels the need to let everybody know her business, and it’s the opposite of what I do. I’m very private, and I’d like us to have some things that stay between us — especially stuff that goes on in the bedroom. How would I set boundaries like this? And does this mean that we are ultimately incompatible?

—Mr. Uncomfortable

Being compatible with somebody doesn’t mean you’re like them in all ways. I’m an extrovert, which is to say I see a dead car battery as an opportunity to learn about some tow truck driver’s childhood in Guatemala. Contrast that with my introvert boyfriend, who recently turned down an invitation he got to this really cool event, telling me, “I already said hello to somebody this week.”

Beyond individual human differences, there are some male-female differences, like in feelings- and information-sharing. Sex differences researcher Joyce Benenson explains that men evolved to be the physical defenders of the species, and it would have put a man at a deadly disadvantage to show the enemy his emotions — like if he went all scaredypants from fear: “Oh my God, is that the enemy? I’m gonna throw up.”

Women, on the other hand, evolved to build support networks and avoid social exclusion by convincing other women that they aren’t a threat. A woman does this not by hiding her vulnerabilities but by putting her problems and weaknesses on parade — a la “My ladyparts have been declared an EPA cleanup zone!”

In other words, your privacy nightmare — the scrapbooking circle getting together to focus-group your medical issues — is your girlfriend’s emotional comfort zone. But this isn’t necessarily a sign that your relationship is toast. For a relationship to make it, you and your partner don’t have to be the same; you just have to have enough in common and be loving in dealing with each other’s differing weirdass needs.

If there were such a thing as psychological catnip for humans, it would probably be feeling understood. So, tell your girlfriend that you understand it helps her to hash things out with her mom and the ladypeeps and that you think that’s great. You’re just wired differently. Explain how, and then — sweetly — make your request: You’d feel most comfortable if what happens between you stays between you…given that your idea of openness involves making people sign a 30-page nondisclosure agreement before viewing the heavily encrypted photos — of Steve, your dog.

lAsT YeAr’s shAGGAGe

I’m a woman who’s had a casual hookup thing with a guy for almost two years. I want a serious relationship, and I really like him and would like it to be with him. When we’re together, we have a great time, but he can go a week or two without contacting me. Last week, he showed up late to my birthday, with no present and not even a card. I know I should cut him off, but the sex is great, and there’s nobody else on the horizon. Any chance he’ll finally realize I’m a catch and come around?

—Hoping The guy didn’t even give you a birthday card. Even the car wash gives you a birthday card.

Any guy with an IQ exceeding the highway speed limit gets that birthdays are a big deal to most women. And if you care about birthdays and a guy cares about you, he’ll step up — at the very least by running into a drugstore, grabbing a card, and checking that the pre-printed heartfelt message inside isn’t “To my very special grandson! On his very special day!”

In a hookup situation, it actually isn’t crazy to hope for an upgrade from sexfriend to girlfriend. In a survey by Kinsey Institute researcher Justin Garcia, 51 percent of the people who had hookups went into them hoping to kick-start a romantic relationship. In another survey, 9.8 percent of hookups led to committed relationships. However, there’s a progression that takes place in going from lust to emotional attachment. It has a hormonal profile and a general timetable, and, well, two years into a sex thing, the attachment train is probably well out of the station.

In other words, it’s time to take this relationship to the next level — “the end.”

On a positive note, it’s possible that removing yourself from this guy’s life will make him realize that he loves you and needs you in it — leading him to start showing boyfriend-type attentiveness. Either way, you’re setting yourself up to have a man you can count on to be there for you — and not just naked and at the ready whenever his Wi-Fi goes down. n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR VIVA ITALIA! Chef Charlie Martin shares his love for Italian food and wine in this hands-on cooking class. July 7, 6-8 pm.

Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141) AN EVENING IN TUSCANY A benefit to support the women and children staying at the domestic violence safe shelter and using YWCA Spokane services.

Dinner is prepared by local Chef Gina Lanza, and includes wine, live music, desserts, dancing and more. July 8, 6-10 pm. $70/person. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. (465-3591)

MUSIC

STAGE2STAGE The winery’s fourth annual outdoor, summer music festival.

Performers include Karrie O’Neill, Butterscotch Blonde, Haley Young and the Champagne Jam and Grande Avenue.

July 2, 12-8 pm. Free. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. arborcrest. com (509-927-9463) SINGING NUNS 4TH OF JULY CONCERT Enjoy beverages, dessert and a concert on the grounds of St. Michael’s. After the show, view fireworks from around the city from the front hill. Bring your own chair; even is an alcohol free. July 4, 7-10 pm. $5/person. Mt. St. Michael’s, 8500 N. St. Michaels Rd. singingnuns.com ST. JOHN’S FOURTH OF JULY CONCERT Wesley Arai, Associate Carillonist at UC Berkeley, returns to Spokane for his sixth annual July 4 concert, featuring a program of American folk songs and patriotic music. July 4, 9-10 pm. Free. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (838-4277) LIVE SHOW TUNES FEAT. THE CDA SUMMER THEATRE A free, familyfriendly concert in the park featuring a program of songs performed by members of the Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre’s 2016 season. July 7, 6-8 pm. Free.

Riverstone Park, 1800 Tilford Ln.

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DIRTY LADIES DAYS Meet in the village before heading up the hill to the Silver Mt. Bike Park for a casual group ride and a chance to meet and ride with a bunch of like-minded ladies.

Discounted lift tickets are available to participants. Held on Fridays in July and August. Free to participate. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com (208-783-1111) EVENING KAYAK PADDLE ON THE LITTLE SPOKANE Take a tour on the Little Spokane River with a flat-water paddles, seeing wildlife, natural scenery and more. Guides and kayaking equipment included. $25. Sessions on July 1, 15, 29 and Aug. 12, see spokaneparks.org for details and to register.

SUNDAY MORNING XC BIKE RACES Through July, Schweitzer hosts the Sunday morning cross-country mountain bike race series. Course starts in the Village and varies each week. Every Sunday in July. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint. schweitzer.com SPOKANE INDIANS PENNANT RUN The annual Fourth of July 5K benefits the Wounded Warrior Project. Also includes the Little Sluggers Dash 1K for kids age 3 and under (free). July 4. $15$25. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindianspennantrun.com SPOKANE INDIANS VS. BOISE Home game series promotional nights include

4th of July fireworks, 80s night, and $1 family feast night. July 4-8, at 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922) CAMP DART-LO COMMUNITY SWIM Cool off in the outdoor pools, surrounded by forest. Open swim offered Mon-Fri, 3-5:30 pm, July 5-Aug. 19. $4/ person per visit; or $30/pass of 10 visits.

Camp Dart-Lo, 14000 N. Dartford Dr. campfireinc.org INTRODUCTIONS TO FLY FISHING Join Rick Newman with Spokane Fly Fishers to learn the basics of fly fishing, including what gear you need, places to go, and the kinds of fish that can be caught.

July 5, 6 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. (444-5390) HIKING WITH DOGS A class covering what to bring on a hike with your dog, along with an overview of dog-friendly parks, safety issues, and trail etiquette.

Please do not bring dogs to this session. July 7, 6 pm. Free, register online.

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THEATER

CDA SUMMER THEATRE: PETER & THE STARCATCHER The humorous and fantastical backstory of the beloved character Peter Pan and his arch-nemesis Captain Hook. Through July 3; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. $27-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com ACES ARE FEVERISH The world premiere of an original comedy/murder mystery by Matthew Weaver. Through July 3, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $7-$14. Masquers Theatre, 322 E. Main Ave., Soap Lake, Wash. masquers.com THE DILIGENT DAUGHTER OR LIPS THAT TOUCH WINE Nellie and Naomi Nice are in search of their father who has disappeared. He must be found before midnight so they can claim their family inheritance from poor, departed Aunt Hester’s estate. But, if they fail, the entire estate goes to the Bilious Brewery. July 6-31; Wed-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St. sixthstreetmelodrama.com BUDDY, THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY B. Dalen Gunn returns to Spokane to perform as the lead in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, directed by Yvonne A.K. Johnson at the new Spokane Valley Summer Theatre. July 7-17, Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm and Sun at 2:30 pm. $24-$38.

Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan. svsummertheatre.com (368-7897)

VISUAL ARTS

YOU ARE HERE Regional artists Chad Erpelding, Chris Tyllia, and Tricia Florence present works inspired and influences by maps, paths and connections in our world. June 29-Sept. 29; opening reception Aug. 5, 5-8 pm. Gallery hours Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. Free and open to the public. Chase Gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanearts.org/chase. aspx (509-625-6081) FLORIDAE: ART & CONTEXT This year’s 10th annual show debuts the work of Pullman artist Kelly McGovern, alongside art by Jim Gale and Marty Bolick. Art on display through the end of August; gallery hours Thu-Sat, 11 am-5 pm. Free and open to the public. Bank Left Gallery, 100 S. Bridge St. bankleftgallery.com (509-878-8425) THE LIGHT WE CAN’T SEE An exhibit showcasing infrared powwow pho-

tography of Erv Schleufer. On display through Sept. 4. Museum open TueSun, 10 am-5 pm. (Open until 8 pm on Wed; Tue is half-price admission day). $5-$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org CLEARWATER VALLEY SPLENDOR Painter Ron Adams captures in oil the beauty of the streams, rivers and mountain setting in Idaho’s Clearwater Valley. July 1-31; opening reception July 3, 1-3 pm. Gallery open Thu-Sun, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. Free. July 1, 5-8 pm. For complete event details, visit Inlander.com/FirstFriday.

FANGS, FEATHERS & FUR: THE ART OF ANIMALS More than 200 specimens and models are organized into a display of spectacular species. Also see on-loan works by artists including Francisco Jose de Goya, John James Audubon, Titan Ramsey Peale, Peter Moran, and Antoine Louis Barye. July 2-Sept. 4; museum open Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm (until 8 pm on Wed.). $5$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org BACKWOODS JOURNEYS The Entree Gallery celebrates summer at Priest Lake with a collection of acrylics and silk dye on silk, by accomplished North Idaho artist and teacher Janene Grende.

Reception on July 3, from 1-3 pm. July 3, 1-3 pm. Entree Gallery, 1755 Reeder Bay Rd., Priest Lake. entreegallery.com (208-443-2001)

WORDS

ALEXIS SMITH & SHAWN VESTAL A reading and conversation with the regional authors. Smith (Portland) reads from her new book, “Marrow Island,” and Vestal (Spokane) reads from his book, “Daredevils.” June 30, 7-8 pm.

Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s monthly poetry open mic series. Hosted by Chris Cook with special “Remember the Word” guest Adriana Janovich. July 1, 8-10 pm.

Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) READING: MARK HOFFMEISTER The author presents his novel “The Rise and Fall of ISIS and Those Who Will Lead the Islamic Caliphate.” July 2, 7-8 pm.

Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) BOOTSLAM Spokane Poetry Slam’s all-ages performance poetry competition, with a $50 grand prize. Sign-ups at 7, slam at 7:30 pm. $5 to compete or watch. July 3. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org READING: CHELSEA BOLAN The Seattle writer reads from her most recent book, “The Good Sister,” which has won numerous prizes. July 6, 7 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) JOE WILKINS WITH SHANN RAY & KATE LEBO Oregon writer Joe Wilkins reads from his book, “When We Were Birds,” a finalist for the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Wilkins has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Idaho and a degree in computer engineering from Gonzaga University.

He’s joined by Spokane writers Shann Ray and Kate Lebo. July 7, 7-8 pm. Free.

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a promising student who had to battle an illness before becoming a fighter.

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Jacob Szilasi, a welterweight pro boxer based in Spokane, trains in a gym owned by his coach Jesse Mora.

Fighting Back

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After losing pieces of themselves, a boxer and his coach form a bond

BY JAKE THOMAS

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n a garage in north Spokane that’s been converted into a boxing gym, Jacob Szilasi gets ready to go to work.

He gives each nostril a blast of nasal spray to help him breathe through a nose that’s been punched more than once, straps on a pair of red Nike boxing shoes and warms up by jumping rope.

“Alright, Jake. Just me and you, baby,” says his coach, Jesse Mora, who enters the ring and sets a 3-minute timer. “Just me and you. Relax.”

Mora calls out punches that Szilasi delivers to mitts worn by his coach. “Left hook!” “One, two, left upper-

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cut!” “Switch it to southpaw!”

After a few rounds, a film of sweat covers Szilasi, and Mora delicately drapes his student in a towel. Mora didn’t intend to become a coach. Six years ago, at age 50, he was training at a local gym for his comeback as a professional welterweight boxer. While training he met Szilasi, a kid out of Idaho eager to soak up any lessons from the older fighter.

While training, Mora suffered an injury leaving him with a detached retina, a glass eye and dashed hopes of fighting professionally. He says it was hard to give up his fighting ambitions. But in the process, he’s gained Szilasi,

zilasi, 26, is 5 foot 7 and has a fighting weight of 147 pounds. He has clipped red hair, a short red beard, and a chipped tooth from sparring with Mora.

He had his first fight with a neighborhood kid in a trailer court in St. Maries, Idaho, the town where he spent most of his childhood.

“We would always fight and be friends, fight and be friends,” recalls Szilasi. “This one time we got in a fight and I broke his nose.”

He wrestled his senior year of high school and figured he would eventually transition to boxing. “I always had a plan to fight,” he recalls.

But after graduation, Szilasi stuck around St. Maries.

He says he fell in with drug dealers and addicts. After a particularly bad bar brawl, he decided it was time for a change and moved to Spokane in 2011, where he started training at Spokane Boxing and Martial Arts. There he met Mora, who taught him to jab and how to snap back a punch to make it sting.

One Saturday in April 2013, he felt a deep pain in his right testicle that turned out to be testicular cancer. He underwent chemotherapy, leaving him weakened and unable to train. He also underwent surgery. “They removed the right testicle,” he says. In August, his chemotherapy ended, leaving him weakened but with renewed focus on training.

“It was an unexpected blessing,” says Szilasi. A year later, still weak from the cancer, Szilasi approached Mora.

“He comes out of chemo and he comes up to me, tells me he wants to fight,” recalls Mora. “No eyebrows.

No nothing. White as a ghost.”

“Jesse, I wanna fight,” Szilasi insisted.

“Hey man, now’s not a good time,” said Mora.

But Szilasi looked him in the eye and asked once again. Mora couldn’t refuse.

Szilasi wakes up at 5:30 am. He starts the day with a glass of two or three raw eggs underneath a layer of orange juice. He does lots of calisthenics and cardio. Even in the snow, he alternates between doing sprints and running 5 to 8 miles. No partying on Friday nights.

Rick Welliver, Spokane Boxing and Martial Arts’ owner and head coach, says he was coaching Szilasi until he saw that he and Mora had a natural chemistry.

Welliver says that when Szilasi had his first fight after his cancer treatment, “he was better than ever; he came back stronger.”

Last year, Szilasi and Mora decided to take the next step. Szilasi underwent a physical and Mora filled out some forms. That July, Szilasi received his professional boxing license in the welterweight division, becoming one of a handful of boxers in Spokane to go pro.

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fter getting management, Szilasi started well, winning his first four fights. But he suffered a setback in April, losing a match in St. George, Utah, to a fighter with a 9-0 record.

Although Szilasi gets paid to box, even receiving about $2,000 for a match in Chicago that was canceled, he still works a day job as an administrative assistant at a recovery center. In the meantime, he and Mora continue to train.

Although Mora’s fighting days are over, he says what he’s doing makes sense.

“I know this is what I’m supposed to do,” he says.

“God gave us this blessing to work together.” n jaket@inlander.com

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